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Descriptive Summary
Creator:	North American Jewish Students Appeal
Title:	North American Jewish Students Appeal Records
Dates:	undated, 1962, 1964-1996
Dates:	(Bulk 1971-1995)
Abstract:	The records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA or APPEAL) contains documents on two levels of concern: those documents dealing with the NAJSA as a student-run organization promoting Jewish identity among college-aged youth; and those documents dealing with the APPEAL as a fundraising organization for several well-known student constituent organizations. The Constituents were: the Jewish Student Press Service, Lights in Action, the North American Jewish Students Network, the Progressive Zionist Caucus, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Yavneh Religious Students Organization, and Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish. Documents include correspondence, financial records, minutes, press releases, information on grants awarded to student organizations for programming and publishing, student journals and newspapers, photographs, and ephemera.
Languages:	The collection is in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
Quantity:	58.9 linear ft. (I-338);
Quantity:	4.13 linear ft. (I-338A)
Accession number:	I-338 and I-338A
Repository:	American Jewish Historical Society

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Historical Note

The events leading up to the formation of the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA or APPEAL) began in May 1969 when the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) sponsored a conference in Brewster, NY. The conference, attended by a collection of students, young adults and student activists, focused on issues concerning the state of Judaism among American youth, organization of the students into a viable movement, and from the student's viewpoint, how to conduct effective and meaningful communications between them and the older generation of the Federations. Out of this conference arose the North American Jewish Students NETWORK, a communications, information and resource arm of the WUJS. As an umbrella service providing information on strategies and tactics through NETWORK, Jewish students and young adults were able to coordinate and plan for organized disruptions at the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fund's (CJFWF) General Assembly (GA) in Boston from November 12-18, 1969, coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the American Federation movement. ¹

The students, not originally scheduled to speak at any sessions, were exceptionally vocal at the Boston assembly, staging sit-ins and protests and disrupting the normal functions of the yearly gathering. The students were empowered by two factors in staging their disruptions at the Assembly. The Black Power Movement, which some of the students had been involved with, had introduced "the concept that strong ethnic identification was not only good, but necessary," and the 1967 War in the Middle East caused young and old Jews to "express openly their Jewish identity." The students also viewed themselves as up against an "entrenched Federation system" that was slow to act and that Synagogue-associated youth groups such as Hillel were ill-equipped, financially or with the manpower, to address a vocal and somewhat radicalized activist generation of Jewish youth who felt both 'turned-off' to their Jewish identity and 'tuned-out' by established youth groups.

The vocal students were allotted time to speak at a Luncheon session of the GA, choosing as their representative Rabbi Hillel Levine. Levine was a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Social Relations at Harvard and a Graduate of the Rabbinical College at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS). Rabbi Levine began by stating that:

• "At the outset, I must make one point clear. I am not part of this convention; neither was I nor any young person asked to speak at this time. I stand here with a mandate from my friends hoping that what I say expresses you directly. Knowing that we are given this opportunity only through threats of a disruption, you might dismiss us as children of our times, bored with the battle of the campus and looking for a new stage upon which to play our childish pranks of doubtful morality. ²

Rabbi Levine then offered a definition of the students - how they viewed themselves in the community of American Jews:

• "But we see ourselves as more than children of our times; we see ourselves as children of timelessness. We see ourselves as your children, the children of Jews who with great dedication concern themselves with the needs of the community, the children of those who bring comfort to the afflicted, give aid to the poor, who have built mammoth philanthropic organizations, who have aided the remnants of the Holocaust, who have given unfalteringly to the building of Israel…We are your children, and I affirm this, but we want to be not only your children, but also builders. We want to participate with you in building the vision of a great Jewish community." ³

Gordon Zacks, the 1969 Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal’s (UJA) Young Leadership Cabinet (YLC) and former Chair of the CJFWF Leadership Development Committee, addressed the delegates in a regularly scheduled meeting of the Luncheon Session of the Assembly. Zacks, in a forum entitled "Young Leadership Looks at the Future of the Jewish Community" urged the Assembly to pass a resolution calling for the creation of a body with a six-prong plan addressing certain issues facing the Jewish community within a 12-month period. This body, proposed as the "Foundation for Jewish Identity", would undertake, develop and provide seed money to harvest "the best Jewish brainpower in support of those kinds of activities which will produce a multiplier effect on creative Jewish living and identity." One of the six specific areas in which Mr. Zacks urged plan development was in presenting a "bold new activities-oriented approach to reach and involve university students."4 (Zacks and Neil Norry (the Special Promotions Chairperson of the national UJA office), working on the Federation side, became two of the prime initiators and backers of the APPEAL, providing moral, organizational and financial support to NETWORK in establishing the groundwork for the APPEAL.)

After the General Assembly, the students were unorganized and unincorporated, had no budget, or central strategy for receiving or allocating funds they might receive from the Federations. The student leaders met at a December 1969 UJA meeting, but were unable to press their efforts to raise funds from the Federations until some semblance of organization occurred. In June of 1971, NETWORK, using its connections through the WUJS, organized meetings with the leaders of the six original Constituents to discuss their varying financial crises and how to organize and present a united fundraising plan to the CJFWF. Those initial Constituents, the Jewish Student Press Service (organized 1970), Response (organized 1967), NETWORK (1969), the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (1964), Yavneh (1965) and Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish (1965) banded together to form the North American Jewish Students Appeal. 5

The thrust of this work was primarily fundraising and allocating to the Constituent organizations, of which, over time, there were eight not including a few small 'satellite' Constituents. NETWORK and YAVNEH eventually left the APPEAL, with the Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC, organized 1987) and Lights in Action (LIA, organized 1992) taking their places. In addition to the allocating of funds and fundraising for the Constituent organizations, the APPEAL administered under its own name a Beneficiary Grants program. The grants, ranging from $50 to $500, were awarded primarily to campus student organizations requiring funding for campus programming or publications promoting Jewish identity and news among students.

The structure of the APPEAL included an Executive Director and executive assistant, with occasional field workers and interns. The Executive Director ran the everyday operations of the APPEAL, including allocations distribution, compiling Constituent presentations, writing grants, fundraising, and advertising the APPEAL. The Executive Directors of the APPEAL included Robert Goldman, Edward (Avi) Lyons, Mark Mishan, Steven Cohen, Susan Dessel, Roberta Shiffman and Brenda Gervetz.

The advisors of the APPEAL consisted of a Board of Trustees and a Governing Board. Friends of the Students, or Friends, were named for those people who donated money but had no say in the workings of the APPEAL. Rabbis and congregations were regularly called upon for donations and spiritual support.

Trustees acted as an advisory board to the APPEAL, and lobbied their local and national Federations to fund the APPEAL. As an advisory board, Trustees had no say in the internal workings of the Constituents, or the APPEAL allocation formula. Money received from the Federations was divided between the Constituents and the Beneficiary Grants program according to an allocation formula decided by the Constituents and Governing Board. Trustees acted as a buffer between the Federations and the NAJSA students and were arbiters of any internal disputes between the NAJSA and Constituents. The collective Trustee membership consisted of community members and delegates from the Governing Board, who were primarily students at the time of their Trusteeship. These students served as both Trustees and Governing Board members, though once they left the Governing Board for reasons of graduation or resignation they had the option of remaining Trustees.

The majority of the Trustees were older men and women who had worked within the Jewish community for many years, and knew the finer points of approaching the Federations. The APPEAL strove to develop and maintain ties with at least one vocal, well-placed Trustee that held the ear of local Federations. The Trustees were particularly useful during each Federation's allocation evaluation time, based on the fiscal year. After the NAJSA submitted their allocation applications to a Federation, the local Trustee would follow-up, making phone calls, visiting or conducting presentations to the Federation as possible or advisable. The Trustees were vital in initiating new Federations into giving to the APPEAL, encouraging Federations to increase an already confirmed allocation or maintaining an allocation over time.

The Trustees did not hold regularly scheduled meetings. Meetings of the Trustees were attempted during quarterly CJF sessions, but attendance was relatively poor as Trustees were more willing to travel to the larger General Assembly conferences than quarterly meetings. Trustees also donated to the APPEAL with their own Tzedakah, or charitable contribution. Current Trustees recruited new Trustees, with Trustees Michael and Natalie Pelavin and Steven Schwarz being the most active in this regard. Gordon Zacks encouraged the actor Theodore Bikel (The African Queen, My Fair Lady, The Defiant Ones, Victory at Entebbe) to become a Trustee. Trustee Chairpersons included Zacks, Michael Pelavin, Jacqueline Levine, Steven Schwarz, Alan H. Molod, Suzanne Perelman, Magda Leuchter-Shenberg, and Gerald Flanzbaum.

The Governing Board consisted of seven constituent delegates, and six at-large delegates. The Constituents selected delegates and previous Board members, Trustees, and Constituents nominated at-large delegates. At-large delegates were students under the age of 30 years at the time of election and served one-year terms; staff from the APPEAL could be appointed as non-voting delegates. The Governing Board met during the school year from September to June on a monthly basis to review each Constituent's programming and prepare for Spring budgeting and the Fall allocation formula vote. The Governing Board reviewed Beneficiary Grants proposals, recommending or denying funding for each grant proposed. The Governing Board elected a President and an Executive Committee, which included the President, Executive Director and three Board members. In addition to the Executive Committee, the Board elected a Steering, Allocations and Internal Review Committees.

In the structure of the Federation system, the APPEAL presented budget materials and financial reports, along with Constituent presentations, to the Large City Budgeting Conference (LCBC), an independent division of the CJFWF representing the larger, local Federations according to population size. The CJFWF based Federation divisions on local population sizes by large, intermediate and small budgeting councils representing local cities and towns. The LCBC would then certify to the Federations, a recommended target budget to be allocated from the local Federations to the APPEAL. The CJFWF/LCBC issued a 'Budget Digest,' containing the combined report of the CJFWF and the APPEAL, including a description of the activities of the APPEAL and Constituents, a brief history and scope of the organization, along with a report on the APPEAL's financial standing, based on financial documentation presented by the APPEAL. For instance, based on the APPEAL's presentation, its financial documentation and plans for the following fiscal year, the LCBC would certify the APPEAL's allocation from Federation funds at $120,000. (The APPEAL also received certification from the Intermediate and Small Cities Budgeting Conferences.) After certification, the Federations viewed the APPEAL as a legitimate allocation entity. Based on the local Federation budget, an allocation was then made to the APPEAL, spread throughout the fiscal year or in one lump sum. The APPEAL attended the annual GA, mingling with Federation representatives on the national and local levels, attending forums on student-related issues and to present their budgets for certification. The GA was held in a variety of host cities designated by the number of the annual event. The CJFWF later became the Council of Jewish Federations (CJF) and then merged with the United Israel Appeal (UIA) and the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) to form the United Jewish Communities (UJC).

The APPEAL was active on several CJF committees, including the College Youth and Faculty Committee, the Leadership Development Committee, the Task Force on Services to Jewish University Students, and the Women's Committee on Russian Women. The NAJSA served on the United Jewish Appeal's Student Advisory Committee and the Young Leadership Cabinet. During the 1970s, the APPEAL attempted to merge with the Joint Cultural Appeal (JCA), a fundraising entity for several organizations including the American Jewish Historical Society, Histadruth Ivrith of America, the Leo Baeck Institute, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

The APPEAL disbanded in June 1995 due to the shrinking of Federation funds, the changing structure of the CJF and tensions between the APPEAL and Hillel. As money disappeared from the Federations, the trickle down effect made it difficult for the Federations to justify funding two National student organizations.

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Constituent Historical Note

The Constituents of the APPEAL were expected to meet certain financial and obligatory commitments in order to remain part of the APPEAL allocation process. The criteria for becoming an NAJSA Constituent rested on whether the organization was a national and independent group that had no parent foundation funding or policy-making body overseeing the organization. All policy had to set by a student or young adult governing board.

The relationship between the Constituents and the APPEAL was sometimes rocky, as personalities and priorities clashed. On the whole, however, the relationship worked well, with the APPEAL alleviating some of the financial worries of the Constituents, and the Constituents serving as an advertising vehicle for the APPEAL. The Constituents sent monthly activity, quarterly and yearly audit reports to the APPEAL who in turn submitted activity and financial presentations to the LCBC and local Federations. The reports and audits arriving from the Constituents were sporadic at times. In cases where the quarterlies were not received by the end of the months of September, January, April and July, allocations were held until receipt; in cases of audits arriving after the August 15 deadline of each year, a withholding penalty was imposed of 1% of the group's allocation. Any total withheld was then divided and allocated to other Constituents. Penalties and allocation withholding was not used often by the APPEAL. However, when it was absolutely necessary, the APPEAL did employ these methods to enforce compliance. In 1978, after repeated attempts to obtain financial reports from YAVNEH on a timely basis, the tensions between the two groups escalated to such a degree that YAVNEH withdrew from the APPEAL. Two years later, the group had reorganized itself and attempted to rejoin the APPEAL.

Constituents were unable to solicit funds directly from any individual Federation. This method insured that the Federations were not bombarded by a multitude of requests while securing some continuity in the APPEAL's approach. NETWORK requested endowment funds from the Federations, thereby violating the by-law and leading to NETWORK's temporary withdrawal plus a 1% penalty fee imposed on NETWORK until it fell into 'compliance.' During this period, the tensions between the APPEAL and NETWORK led to the complete withdrawal of NETWORK from the NAJSA in 1985.

Constituents received monthly Governing Board minutes and correspondence from the APPEAL. The Constituents were not mandated to send their board minutes and correspondence to the APPEAL. The APPEAL did not interfere with or dictate the affairs of the Constituents unless it came to matters of the appropriate spending of money by the Constituents. In one incident between the APPEAL and JSPS in the early 1990s, the APPEAL believed that JSPS was mismanaging its funds and initiated a review of JSPS' finances. Though the editor of JSPS' New Voices resigned from JSPS because of supposed improprieties, the records are unclear as to whether JSPS actually mismanaged funds.

Allocations received from the Federations to the NAJSA for distribution to the Constituents were issued on the basis of allocation formulas. The Constituents were reviewed and critiqued based on the previous academic year's activities and projection of activities for the new academic year. Included in this critique and review was Constituent participation in the life and function of the APPEAL, and a budgetary review. After each Constituent presented their yearly review to the Governing Board, Board members cast secret ballots, noting each Constituent's allocation percentage. Monetary percentages were averaged by the Executive Committee and presented to the Governing Board for a final vote.

The Constituents were encouraged to submit grant proposals to the APPEAL. At Constituent conferences, conventions or seminars, APPEAL presentations were made to participants, consisting of a history of the APPEAL, description of the Constituent groups, a summary of the financial status of the Appeal and how participants could help promote or join the NAJSA as a Governing Board delegate. Participants to any of the Constituent events were encouraged to send a letter to their local Federation concerning any events attended. Trustees of the NAJSA received Constituent mailings, and Constituents provided the NAJSA office with promotional materials for fundraising purposes. In the case of JSPS, any publishing venture supported by JSPS was required to send copies of their publications to the NAJSA.

The NAJSA's philosophy was that the APPEAL was not a 'bank', but part of the Constituent process, or a communal family, each with their own responsibilities, but functioning together with a shared sense of purpose. Frequent and clear communication, consideration and sensitivity were highly valued under the APPEAL umbrella. Though this philosophy did not always pan out, for the most part, the relations between the NAJSA and the Constituents worked well, and the APPEAL always worked tirelessly on behalf of its Constituent organizations.

Constituent Brief Histories

Information for this section is taken from yearly presentation materials written by the APPEAL and its Constituents for review by the Federations. Allocation presentations may be found in Series III: Constituents, Subseries 1: General Records.

Bayit Project

The Bayit (house or home) Project, was a collection of communal houses for campus activists in Israel and North America, sponsored in part, though unaffiliated with, the Progressive Zionist Caucus. The project was established in 1982, with headquarters located in Los Angeles serving as a central office for 'disseminating programmatic resources and financial support' to the individual houses under the program. The APPEAL provided funding for programmatic events sponsored by the project and not for the upkeep or maintenance of properties. The first allocation presented to the Project from the NAJSA was advanced to them, as the Governing Board had not decided their official allocation amount at the time of joining the APPEAL. When the project became a Constituent in November 1987, there were 23 houses or batim established in eight states. By 1993, additional houses were established in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, Israel, UC Berkeley in California and the University of Pittsburgh. Students living in the bayits performed weekly community and Jewish student outreach activities and service projects. The program produced the newsletters Kidma and the Bayit Bulletin. The Bayit Project was affiliated with the Bayit Foundation and Project Orchim ("hospitality").

Lights in Action (LIA)

Lights in Action developed out of Columbia University by Ze'ev Maghen in 1991, after students protesting against an anti-Semitic speech spurred him to write an article in promotion of Judaism. Among the co-founders of LIA were students from other colleges, such as Dasee Berkowitz and Sasha Levin from Bernard College and Rivky Shuchatovitz from Stern College, Yeshiva University. LIA was dedicated to promoting Jewish identity and Zionist commitment among college-aged Jews. The name derives from a theme ("hundreds of lights going into action") developed for a celebration of Jewish identity in December 1991 at Washington Square Park in New York City. From this celebration, LIA created and distributed mailings on Jewish/Zionist identity, developed Sabbath programming (Shabbat Leumit) based on the WUJS model of worldwide Shabbat, and distributed colorful, well-produced posters, calendars and Shabbat cards that stressed the positive experiences of Jewish culture and worship. Well-organized and enthusiastic, LIA distributed and developed materials to over 175 campuses across the US and Canada, developing seminars in conjunction with Hillel and the Aleph Society, and becoming a delegate member of the World Union of Jewish Students. The American Jewish Historical Society holds the currently unprocessed Records of Lights in Action, 1991-2001

Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS)

The Jewish Student Press Service was organized in 1970 and continues to serve the American Jewish student community. The Service was established by NETWORK to act as a clearinghouse for Jewish student and young adult publications for worldwide distribution with technical and editorial services provided. JSPS became independent of NETWORK in Feb. 1971, thereby meeting the criteria of the APPEAL for membership.

JSPS staff consisted of an editor/administrator who managed the everyday organization of the JSPS offices. The managing editor also edited a monthly packet of feature articles and eventually New Voices, which began publication in 1991. Other staff included a part-time secretary, two field workers and an Israel bureau editor. JSPS sponsored conferences including the National Editors Conference, New York, West Coast and Israel Editors Conferences and in partnership with the World Zionist Organization, the Do the Right Thing Journalism Conference. JSPS co-sponsored several symposiums with RESPONSE, including a conference on "Multiculturalism, Jews and the Campus" in 1991.

North American Jewish Students Network (NETWORK)

NETWORK provided the impetus for the birth of the APPEAL and was considered the most 'sellable' of the NAJSA groups. NETWORK was student-created, student-run and involved all the politically, religiously and geographically disparate elements of the Jewish student community. In May 1969, the World Union of Jewish Students, a London-based organization, gathered 150 Jewish student leaders together in Brewster, NY to discuss issues concerning Jewish youth in the U.S. and Canada. The two main issues the Brewster conference focused on were the resurgence of interest in issues of Judaism in young people after the end of the Six Day War and strategies for organizing a Jewish student movement. A result of that meeting was the formation of NETWORK as a communications link and resource center to disseminate a wide range of information to concerned Jewish young people across the broad spectrum of North American Judaism.

NETWORK formed a central communications link between diverse groups of Jewish youth while also linking U.S. and Canadian students. Advice and help in developing student programming was disseminated through a resource center, linking students and student groups to speakers, films, educational resources, program ideas and institutional contacts. NETWORK provided encouragement for student-initiated and directed projects while stimulating "Jewish activists to reach out to other unaffiliated, uninvolved Jewish students." Finally, NETWORK served as a common forum for Jewish students, a place where the gamut of Jewish student movements from counter-culture radicals to Chassidics could talk about and act on priorities of concern as well as reach out to inactive young Jews.

NETWORK published a newspaper and The Guide to Jewish Student Groups, a compendium of Jewish student groups throughout North America. NETWORK sponsored annual conventions including a yearly conference, the New York Jewish Leaders Conference, Pan American Jewish Students Conference and the Israel Task Force. NETWORK sponsored an Israel Awareness Week (held in November), created a Yom Kippur War Israel News Hotline, held forums and conferences on Jewish women, pioneered the New Jewish Media Project, which sponsored Jewish film festivals and published a catalog of Jewish film and television; sponsored the Chavurots communal Jewish housing program, and helped to create the Jewish Arts and Crafts Community, a collective of Jewish artists and formed the Jewish Student Press Service. NETWORK also initiated the APPEAL by gathering the six original constituents under one fundraising arm. 6

While NETWORK was the forerunner of NAJSA's Constituents, the relationship eventually was strained to the point of breaking. NETWORK withdrew from the APPEAL in 1978, rejoined a few years later, and withdrew again in March 1985. The first withdrawal was instigated when the American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF) prompted a takeover of NETWORK, thereby invalidating NAJSA's by-laws that all Constituents were to remain free from parent organizations. The second withdrawal began in Fall 1981 when NETWORK approached the Federations on their own for funding. NETWORK stated the funds were for endowments and claimed that the NAJSA failed to secure appropriate funding from the Federations. NETWORK decided afterward to abide by the APPEAL By-laws, but strain between the two organizations increased and NETWORK withdrew permanently in March 1985.

Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC)

The Progressive Zionist Caucus joined the APPEAL shortly after NETWORK departed, becoming an official Constituent on Feb. 12, 1987. Founded in 1982, the PZC was the only Jewish campus organization that specifically supported the efforts of the Israeli peace movement. According to NAJSA presentation reports, PZC, "Because of its alternative Zionist approach…appeals to politically sensitive students whose concerns are not always addressed by other Jewish campus groups…PZC provides these students with a Zionist framework to support Israel which examines certain policies of the Israeli government while working for social and political change."7

PZC chapters were located on 50 North American campuses and published the La'Inyan (To The Point) annual journal and Makor, sourcebooks providing synopses on progressive Zionist ideology and offering suggestions to progressive Zionist campus activists. The Caucus sponsored diverse campus events including speakers, films, seminars, Seders, and Arab-Jewish dialogue groups. Prominent peace activists and politicians from North America and Israel regularly spoke on campuses through PZC. PZC also sponsored seminars on Aliyah ("going up" or moving to Israel) and leadership, participated in the Spitzer Forums on Public Policy, Hillel's National Leadership Conference and in General Assemblies.

Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review (RESPONSE)

RESPONSE termed itself a 'Contemporary Jewish Review' due to its publication of articles written by student thinkers as a 'vehicle for serious political and social commentary,' providing a forum for young writers, essayists, literary critics, artists, poets and short story writers. Begun in 1967 at Columbia University by undergraduate students, RESPONSE originally began as a quarterly, but due to monetary constraints, eventually published three journals per year, one of which appeared as a double issue. RESPONSE was an editorially independent student publication, using volunteer writers and editors. The Editorial Board of RESPONSE met on a monthly basis to discuss manuscripts while a part-time, paid sales manager conducted the administrative work of the journal. RESPONSE relied almost exclusively on the monies supplied to it by the NAJSA and subscribers. The journal distributed 1000 free copies to campuses, and approximately 2000 subscribers included libraries, synagogues and private subscribers worldwide.

Issues of Response covered a wide range of topics, sometimes based on a theme. Issues focused on new fiction by American Jews, intermarriage, family life, and feminist topics; the political links of homosexuals and Jews, books reviews, the Holocaust, and the relationship of anti-Semitism to anti-Zionism. Issue #58 was devoted to symposium documents from the joint JSPS/RESPONSE symposium on "Multiculturalism, Jews and the Campus."

Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ)

Organized in 1964 and operated by Executive Director Glenn Richter and Jason Birnbaum, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry was at the forefront of organizations lobbying the Soviet Union to allow Jewish 'refuseniks' to immigrate to Israel. (The term 'refusenik' was applied to those Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel. The Soviet government continuously refused, delayed, or denied their requests, hence the term.) SSSJ's purpose was "to aid Russian Jews by publicizing their plight, helping them learn of their Jewish heritage, aiding their efforts to emigrate, and keeping the Jews of North America informed and conscious of the ever-changing condition of the Soviet Jewish situation.” SSSJ served a dual purpose: educating the public on the plight of Soviet Jews and calling to action those people, in particular the Jewish Diaspora in North America but other religious and political affiliations as well, to lobby world governments and persuade the Soviet Union to alter its policy towards its Jews. On the whole, SSSJ was a prime mover and shaker in this regard.

SSSJ utilized a system of grassroots activism and field workers to mobilize both its non-student donor base and its high school and college campus student chapters. SSSJ began a 'twinning' program, connecting American and Russian Jews in pen pal situations.8 As part of the twinning program American students visited their Soviet counterparts, while the "Project Eyewitness" program offered American visitors the opportunity of taping interviews with the young Russians for viewing outside of the Soviet Union. SSSJ organized marathons, bike, and walkathons, mailed background materials and translations to Congress and the press, and promoted numerous innovative programs highlighting different aspects of Jewish captivity in the Soviet Union. The group also testified before Congress concerning the lack of emigration for Romanian Jews to Israel.

As the Soviet Union fell and Russia re-emerged, rules on Jewish emigration were relaxed and the focus of SSSJ moved from political action to the successful absorption of Russian Jews into Israeli society. Student volunteers assisted in language tutoring and setting up new households, among other projects. SSSJ eventually left the APPEAL as its mandate changed, leaving behind a large gap in the APPEAL constituency that the APPEAL found difficult to replace.9

Yavneh: Religious Students Association (YAVNEH)

YAVNEH, the National Religious Students Association, was organized in 1960 'to ensure continuation of traditional Jewish life and education on campuses.' Participants in YAVNEH advocated for religious freedoms and rights, including kosher campus kitchens and test schedule coordination with Jewish holidays. YAVNEH had a staff of an executive director and secretary, and were governed by an Advisory Board and National Executive Board. With its prime focus being the religious Jewish student body, YAVNEH was the most conservative Constituent of the APPEAL. Some of its activities included an annual national convention, professional and leadership seminars, conferences, Shabbat programming, Zionist-related work, and Holocaust, Israel and Western Europe tours. Chapters were established at various campuses, each holding their own activities in addition to the nationally organized events conducted by the central office. YAVNEH also published the Kol Yavneh newspaper, but did not join the publication under the auspices of the JSPS. Tensions concerning fiscal matters arose between YAVNEH and the APPEAL, prompting YAVNEH to withdraw in January 1978. Discussions of YAVNEH rejoining the APPEAL surfaced from time to time, but never materialized.

Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish (YUGNTRUF)

The goal of YUNGTRUF ("call to youth"), organized in 1964, was promoting the Yiddish language as a “living, vibrant part of the life of Jewish students and young adults.” Transcending differences in political and religious spheres, the organization’s single, committed goal was the preservation and perpetuation of Yiddish as part of the culture of the Jewish community. The New York central office coordinated activities throughout North America while YUNGTRUF members in major U.S. cities, and 25 countries, led Yiddish cultural groups. Whenever possible, fieldworkers were hired to travel around North America organizing activities such as songfests, literary discussion groups, creative writing sessions and outings. A spring annual conference was held for members and summer country study retreats (Viddish-vokhs) were conducted in the Berkshire Mountains for total Yiddish immersion. YUGNTRUF regularly participated in world Yiddish conferences and the World Council for Yiddish.

Student ‘graduates’ of YUGNTRUF conducted accredited and informal Yiddish courses on campuses, and in 1981, a Yiddish nursery school was established. YUGNTRUF sold “Yiddish” T-shirts, buttons (“Speak Yiddish With Me”), a collection of songs written and performed by young people entitled “Vaserl,” and The Yiddish Source Finder, a guide of Yiddish activities, resources and textbooks. Also published was an extensive directory of Yiddish courses throughout the world entitled Yiddish in the Classroom: An International Directory. YUNGTRUF sponsored creative workshops in Yiddish, and in 1988 published a collection of works in Yiddish entitled Vidervuks ("Regrowth"): A New Generation of Yiddish Writers.

The journal Yugntruf: A Yiddish Student Quarterly, with its fiction and non-fiction articles and edited by young adults and students, had a circulation of over 2000. Article topics varied from creative writing to works on Israel-Diaspora relations, the Holocaust, Yiddish theatre, Soviet Jewry, Jewish identity, and a section for beginning students of Yiddish. One column (Afn Ekran, "On the screen"), begun in 1987 and developing out of Spring conference discussions, focused on computers and programs written in or compatible with the Yiddish language, including software reviews, and suggested vocabulary for technological and computer science terms in Yiddish. YUNGTRUF also compiled and published "Political Terminology" lists, with words in English, Yiddish and transliterated Yiddish for words such as 'abortion', 'grass-roots', 'homeless' and 'House of Representatives.'

• Footnotes

• 1. Triebwasser, Marc. "The Crisis in Jewish Youth Leadership." News and Views, 1972, pgs. 12-13. Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal, I-338, Box 9/Folder 6, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 2. Levine, Hillel. "To Share a Vision." Remarks presented at the General Luncheon Session, 38th General Assembly, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Records of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, I-69, Box 400/Folder 12, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 3. Ibid.
• 4. Zacks, Gordon. "Young Leadership Looks at the Future of the Jewish Community." Luncheon Session Address, 38th Annual General Assembly, Nov. 13, 1969. Records of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, I-69, Box 400/Folder 12, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 5. Draft letter to Neil Norry, undated. Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal, I-338, Box 70/Folder 10, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 6. "What is Network: The History and Activities of the North American Jewish Students' Network," Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal, I-338, Box 43/Folder 9, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 7. Constituent allocation reports, Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal, I-338, Box 35/Folders 7-12, Collection of the American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.
• 8. Susan Dessel, NAJSA Executive Director, participated in this endeavor on behalf of the APPEAL. See Box 25, Folder 12 and Box 26, Folder 6, for correspondence between Dessel and the Partispayan and Reinberg Families. See also Box 64, Folder 3 for the UJA Women's Committee on Russian Women trip to the Soviet Union for comments from Dessel on meeting women refuseniks.
• 9. Yeshiva University holds the primary Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry collection. AJHS, however, holds the Records of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (located in Newton Centre, MA), as well as the Records of the National Conference for Soviet Jewry.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection documents the working proceedings of the North American Jewish Students Appeal, including the organization's work in the area of promoting Jewish identity among college youth as well as NAJSA's work on behalf of its eight primary and smaller, satellite Constituents. The collection covers the period of NAJSA's existence, from 1971 to 1996, though a few materials derive from the 1960s, mostly concerning RESPONSE, SSSJ, YAVNEH and YUNGTRUF and the founding history of NAJSA. However, the material for these four Constituents and the founding history of the NAJSA is sketchy within the collection prior to 1971. The collection can be grouped into several categories: 1) correspondence and records dealing directly with the NAJSA and its Trustees, Board, and national Jewish organizations and the interaction between the NAJSA and its Constituents; 2) financial, activity, fundraising, and promotional records of the Constituents; 3) financial and fundraising records regarding the NAJSA, including national and local Federations, constructing budgets and allocating funds to Constituents; 4) beneficiary grants awarded by the NAJSA and their impact on Jewish-related programming and publishing on the University student level; and 5) ephemera, magazines, and journals from the Constituents, beneficiaries and national Jewish organizations.

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Arrangement

The series is arranged according to the original filing system of the records of the NAJSA, though in some cases, series have been artificially constructed by rearranging yearly records into more coherent categories, particularly in the case of organizational financial records, Constituent, and Beneficiary Grant files. Publications, ephemera, posters, photographs, and video and audio tape series have been created from the original series by pulling certain publications, printed matter, posters, and ephemera (buttons, t-shirts, etc.) from folders for preservation purposes and to highlight these items in conjunction with the Jewish student movement. Each series contains arrangement notes relevant to the particular series below.

The collection is organized into ten series as follows:

• Series I: Board of Trustees, Governing Board, Friends and Rabbis, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 1: Board of Trustees, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 2: Governing Board, undated, 1971-1973, 1975-1995
  • Subseries 3: Friends, undated, 1971-1992
  • Subseries 4: Rabbis, undated, 1971-1991
• Series II: Organizational Records, undated, 1971-1996
  • Subseries 1: General Records, 1970-1996
  • Subseries 2: Financial Records, 1971-1995
• Series III: Constituent Files, undated, 1962, 1964-1995
  • Subseries 1: General Records, undated, 1968, 1970-1995
  • Subseries 2: Jewish Students Press Service (JSPS), undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 3: North American Jewish Students’ Network (NETWORK), undated, 1971-1986, 1989
  • Subseries 4: Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC), undated, 1986-1995
  • Subseries 5: Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review (Jewish Educational Services, Inc.) (RESPONSE), undated, 1970-1995
  • Subseries 6: Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (with the Center for Russian Jewry) (SSSJ), undated, 1967, 1971-1991
  • Subseries 7: Yavneh Religious Students Organization (YAVNEH), undated, 1962, 1964, 1971-1981
  • Subseries 8: Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish (YUGNTRUF), undated, 1965-1966, 1971-1995
• Series IV: Beneficiary Grants, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 1: General Records, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 2: Grants Made by Program Year, 1971-1995
• Series V: Federations, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 1: Council of Jewish Federations (CJF), undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 2: General Assembly (GA), 1972-1994
  • Subseries 3: Large City Budgeting Conference (LCBC), undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 4: United Jewish Appeal (UJA), 1971-1980, 1988, 1990-1994
  • Subseries 5: United States Cities and Canada, undated, 1971-1995
• Series VI: Fundraising, undated, 1972-[1996]
• Series VII: Publications and Printed Matter, undated, 1969, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 1: Constituents: Journals, Newsletters, Newspapers and Printed Matter, undated, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976-1978, 1984, 1986-1993
  • Subseries 2: Beneficiaries: Journals, Newsletters, Newspapers and Printed Matter, undated, 1969, 1973-1995
  • Subseries 3: Others: Journals, Newsletters, Newspapers and Printed Matter, undated, 1971-1995
• Series VIII: Ephemera and Posters, undated, 1971-1995
  • Subseries 1: Ephemera, undated, 1973-1995
  • Subseries 2: Posters, undated, 1973-1994
• Series IX: Photographs, undated, 1972-1995
• Series X: Video and Audio Tapes, undated, 1990s

• Collection Addendum I-338A: North American Jewish Students Appeal, undated, 1967-1995

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact:
American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA and New York, NY.

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Related Material

I-59, CJF Oral Histories, Charles Zibbel
I-61, Jewish Student Organizations
I-69, CJFWF
I-181, National Conference on Soviet Jewry
I-237, New England Struggle for Soviet Jewry (located in Newton Centre, MA)
I-248, Jewish Student Press Service
I-250, Breira
Unprocessed, Lights in Action
Library, Response Journal Collection

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Provenance

The Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal were donated to the American Jewish Historical Society by Brenda Gervertz, Executive Director of the organization from 1989-1995.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal; I-338; box number/folder number; American Jewish History Society, Newton Centre, MA, and New York, NY.

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series I: Board of Trustees, Governing Board, Friends and Rabbis, undated, 1971-1995.
Boxes 1-15.
Arrangement: Arranged in four subseries: Subseries 1: Board of Trustees, Subseries 2: Governing Board, Subseries 3: Friends, Subseries 4: Rabbis.
Scope and Content: Series I documents correspondence, memos, and minutes of the APPEAL, as well as the APPEAL's solicitation campaigns regarding Trustees, Friends and Rabbis. Series I documents the inner workings of the APPEAL, including advice solicited from its Trustees, the interaction of the Governing Board and Trustees and the workings of the Governing Board. The monetary and spiritual support received from the wider Jewish community towards the basic ideals of the APPEAL's social and political agenda is reflected in the subseries concerning Friends and Rabbis. The series is documented in four parts, as follows.
Subseries 1: Board of Trustees,  undated, 1971-1995.
Boxes 1-9 (Folders 1-6).
Arrangement: Arranged into two informal subcategories, General Records and Trustee Correspondence and Member Lists, alphabetically.
Scope and Content: This subseries is informally divided into General Records ( Box 1) and Trustee Correspondence and Member Lists ( Boxes 2-9, Folders 1-6). General Records include memos, reception arrangements for Chairpersons Alan Molod and Madga Leuchter-Shenberg, minutes, Trustee solicitation materials, a development plan from 1993, and responses from Trustees concerning attendance at the final meeting of the NAJSA from April 1995. Trustee Correspondence and Member Lists includes two folders ( Box 2, Folders 1-2) of Trustee membership lists and correspondence from Trustees. Correspondence is divided into correspondence by infrequent Board correspondents (A-Z, Box 2, Folders 3-7), and those Trustees who maintained a closer working relationship with the organization. Correspondence with former Executive Directors Susan Dessel and Edward Lyons and all former Chairpersons of the APPEAL are included. Minutes relating to Trustee meetings are incomplete, covering only the years between 1974-1978 and 1983-1985. Actions and ideas relating to the Trustees may be obtained from a combination of records: correspondence and memos found in this Subseries, notes and memos of meetings with individual Trustees at General Assemblies ( Series V, Subseries 2), Trustee group and individual meetings held at LCBC quarterly board meetings ( Series V, Subseries 3), correspondence laced throughout individual Federation correspondence in U.S. cities and Canada ( Series V, Subseries 5) and from Governing Board minutes regarding discussions of Trustee advice.
General Records,  1971-1994.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Correspondence and Memo Drafts	1988-1994
1	2	Development Plan, 2nd Draft	November 15, 1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	3	Leuchter (Shenberg) Madga Fund Reception	1994
1	4	Meeting Responses	April 1995
1	5	Memos	undated, 1970s
1	6	Memos	undated, 1970s
1	7	Memos	1980s-1990s
1	8	Minutes	1974-1978, 1983-1985
1	9	Molod, Alan H. Reception Arrangements	1987
1	10	Trustee Involvement Campaign	1988
1	11	Trustee Solicitation Correspondence	undated, 1975-1990
Trustee Correspondence and Member Lists,  1971-1994.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Trustee Member Lists	undated, 1971-1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	2	Trustee Member Lists	1989-1994
2	3	Correspondence A-E	undated, 1975-1991
2	4	Correspondence F-K	undated, 1971-1994
2	5	Correspondence J-N	undated, 1972-1991
2	6	Correspondence O-R	undated, 1972-1989
2	7	Correspondence S-Z	undated, 1972-1981
2	8	Abromovitz, Yossi Correspondence and Article	1991-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	1	Alperin, Melvin G. Correspondence	1983-1995
3	2	Benjamin, Jerry Correspondence	1974-1995
3	3	Bikel, Theodore Correspondence	1971-1986
3	4	Cohen, Steven Correspondence	1976-1991
3	5	Dessel, Susan Correspondence	1974-1994
3	6	Eisen, Arnold (Dr.) Correspondence	1991-1994
3	7	Eisen, Julius Correspondence	1981-1994
3	8	Everett, Henry and Edith Correspondence	1972-1991
3	9	Feuerstein, Moses Correspondence	1972-1983
3	10	Field, Irwin Correspondence	1972-1995
3	11	Flanzbaum, Gerald A. Correspondence	1987
3	12	Flanzbaum, Gerald A.	1988-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	13	Glick, Carl Correspondence	1971-1983
3	14	Goldberg, Paul Correspondence	1981-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	1	Golden, Arnold Correspondence	1983-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	2	Goldenberg, William Correspondence	1978-1994
4	3	Goldman, Robert Correspondence	1971-1972, 1974-1979, 1981, 1983, 1986-1988, 1992
4	4	Groner, Oscar (Rabbi) Correspondence	1975-1986
4	5	Grossman, Susan Correspondence	1978-1994
4	6	Heppner, Lynne Correspondence	1974-1979
4	7	Hertzberg, Arthur (Rabbi) Correspondence	1973-1994
4	8	Hoenlein, Malcolm Correspondence	1975-1995
4	9	Hollander, Sandford Correspondence	1972-1995
4	10	Hornblass, Albie Correspondence	1975-1994
4	11	Horwitz, S. Harold (Hal) (Dr.) Correspondence	1981-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	1	Horwitz, Henry Correspondence	1973-1979
5	2	Hott, Jackie (Dr.) Correspondence	1991
5	3	Hurwitz, Joseph D. Correspondence	1984-1995
5	4	Hurwitz, Marc Correspondence	1993-1995
5	5	Jackier, Larry Correspondence	1983-1994
5	6	Kameny, Nat Correspondence	1972-1979
5	7	Kameny, Nat Correspondence	1980-1994
5	8	Karp, Eliot Correspondence	1988-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	9	Klotz, Bobi Correspondence	1980-1994
5	10	Kramer, Stephen Correspondence	1989-1992
5	11	Kramer, Stephen Correspondence	1992-1993
5	12	Kramer, Stephen Correspondence	1994-1995
5	13	Kurlander, Stuart S. Correspondence	1990-1991
5	14	Lender, Helaine and Marvin Correspondence	1975-1992
5	15	Leuchter (Shenberg), Magda Correspondence	undated, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1987-1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6	1	Leuchter (Shenberg), Magda Correspondence	1989
6	2	Leuchter (Shenberg), Magda Correspondence	1989
6	3	Leuchter (Shenberg), Magda Correspondence	1990-1994
6	4	Levin, Barry J Correspondence	1989-1995
6	5	Levin, Bud Correspondence	1975-1992
6	6	Levin, Lloyd Correspondence	1988-1995
6	7	Levin, Jacqueline Correspondence	1972-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6	8	Levy, Carol Correspondence	1990-1994
6	9	Levy, Robert Correspondence	1974-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
7	1	Lipstadt, Deborah Correspondence	1981-1994
7	2	Lyon, Avram (Avi or Edward) Correspondence	1973, 1975-1992
7	3	Minkoff, Andi Correspondence	1981-1989
7	4	Molod, Alan H. Correspondence	1980-1983
7	5	Molod, Alan H. Correspondence	1984
7	6	Molod, Alan H. Correspondence	1985-1986
7	7	Molod, Alan H. Correspondence	1987-1988
7	8	Molod, Alan H. Correspondence	1989-1995
7	9	Norich, Sam Correspondence	1974-1994
7	10	Norry, Lewis Correspondence	1988-1995
7	11	Norry, Neil and Sharon Correspondence	undated, 1972-1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
8	1	Parelman, Suzanne Correspondence	1976-1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
8	2	Parelman, Suzanne Correspondence	1983-1995
8	3	Pelavin, Michael Correspondence	1973-1995
8	4	Pelavin, Natalie Correspondenc	1974-1995
8	5	Rosenberg, David Correspondence	1972-1981
8	6	Rubenstein, Michael Correspondence	1992-1994
8	7	Ruskay, John Correspondence	1991-1994
8	8	Schrayer, Robert Correspondence	1975-1994
8	9	Schwarz, Steven Correspondence	1974-1994
8	10	Seal, Mark Correspondence	1990-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
		Shenberg-Leuchter, Magda (See Leuchter (Shenberg))
8	11	Shenker, Arden Correspondence	1974-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
9	1	Sherman, Joel Correspondence	1975-1994
9	2	Solender, Sandford and Ethel Correspondence	undated, 1986, 1987, 1991
9	3	Tobin, Gary Correspondence	undated 1988-1993
9	4	Weintraub, Simkha (Rabbi)	1990-1991
9	5	Wiener, Barbara Correspondence	1976-1994
9	6	Zacks, Gordon Correspondence	1972-1994
Subseries 2: Governing Board (GB),  1971-1973, 1975-1995.
Boxes 9 (Folder 7-11) - Box 14 (Folders 1-3).
Arrangement: Arranged into three informal subcategories, Governing Board Committees and Memos; Governing Board and Constituent Delegate Lists and Correspondence; Governing Board Minutes including Miscellaneous Documents and Grants Proposals. Governing Board Committee memos, Delegate lists and correspondence are arranged in alphabetical order. Minutes are arranged according to calendar year while miscellaneous documents and grants proposals are arranged by program year, July-June.
Scope and Content: The first area, Committees and Memos (Box 9, Folders 7-11 and Box 10, Folders 1-3) documents memos and minutes from four Governing Board Committees: the Allocations, Executive, Internal Review and Steering Committees. General memos to the overall Governing Board are included as is Governing Board meeting documentation concerning NETWORK. Although the committees were initiated under the mandate of the NAJSA's By-Laws, special committees met irregularly, or informally at regularly held Governing Board meetings. Box 10, Folder 2 relates to a 1981 Governing Board special meeting held to determine how to handle NETWORK's non-compliance with the By-Laws of the APPEAL in dealing with the solicitation of funds by a Constituent directly from a funding source. For further information on the non-compliance motion and issues regarding it, please see Series III: Constituents, Subseries 3: NETWORK, Box 42, Folders 10-12 and Box 43, Folder 1. The second portion of this subseries (Boxes 10-11, Folders 1-8) houses Delegates Lists and Correspondence, including data sheets on members, member lists, general correspondence to the Board, and correspondence and materials from specific Board members. Also included is correspondence from Governing Board members Jacob Birnbaum and Glenn Richter of SSSJ, and from Sandy Edry, JSPS Editor. The third portion of this subseries (Box 11, Folders 9-20 to Box 14, Folders 1-3) houses Minutes and supporting documents from Governing Board meetings. Please note that minutes from 1974 were not found within the collection. From 1971-1985, no supporting documents from G.B. meetings were kept within Minutes files. Beginning approximately 1986, this policy changed, and three-ring binders were used to house minutes, miscellaneous documents regarding minutes, and beneficiary grants proposals together in separate sections of a binder. For this reason, the materials have been separated by minutes by calendar year, while miscellaneous documents and grants proposals for minutes have been housed separately by program year (July-June). For additional information regarding the Beneficiary Grants proposals and programs, please see Series IV: Subseries 1 and 2.
Governing Board Committees and Memos, undated,  1971-1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
9	7	Allocations Committee Reports	1973
Box	Folder	Title	Date
9	8	Executive Committee Member Lists, Memos and Minutes	1972-1975, 1977-1985, 1988
9	9	Internal Review Committee	1982, 1989
9	10	Memos	undated, 1971-1984
9	11	Memos	undated 1985-1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10	1	Memos	undated, 1988-1995
10	2	NETWORK Non-Compliance Motion Meeting Correspondence and Documents	1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10	3	Steering Committee Memos and Minutes	1973-1975
Governing Board and Constituent Delegates Lists and Correspondence, undated,  1976-1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10	4	Correspondence, A-Z	undated, 1976-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10	5	Data Sheets, A-Z	undated, 1991-1993
10	6	Member Lists	undated
10	7	Member Lists	1981-1983, 1986-1994
10	8	Berkowitz, Beth Data Sheet and Recommendation	1994
10	9	Berkowitz, Dasee Recommendation	1994
10	10	Birnbaum, Jacob (Rabbi) Correspondence	1990
10	11	Braun, Carolyn (Rabbi) Correspondence and Data File	undated, 1983-1990
10	12	Braun, David Correspondence and Data File	1990-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
11	1	Dickter, Adam Correspondence and Data File	1990-1991
11	2	Edry, Sandy Lawrence Correspondence and Data File	1990-1993
11	3	Graff, Bennett Correspondence and Data File	1988-1992
11	4	Kamil, Seth Correspondence and Data File	1991-1993
11	5	Martin, Beth Correspondence and Data File	1989-1991
11	6	Richter, Glenn Correspondence	1981-1990
11	7	Rubin, Cindy Correspondence	1983-1991
11	8	Whiteman, Adam Correspondence	1987-1988
Governing Board Minutes,  1971-1973, 1975-1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
11	9	Minutes	1971
11	10	Minutes	1972
11	11	Minutes	1973
11	12	Minutes	1975
11	13	Minutes	1976
11	14	Minutes	1977
11	15	Minutes	1978
11	16	Minutes	1979
11	17	Minutes	1980
11	18	Minutes	1981
11	19	Minutes	1982
11	20	Minutes	1983
Box	Folder	Title	Date
12	1	Minutes	1984
12	2	Minutes	1985
12	3	Minutes	1986
12	4	Minutes	1987
12	5	Minutes	1988
12	6	Minutes	1989
12	7	Minutes	1990
12	8	Minutes	1991
12	9	Minutes	1992
12	10	Minutes	1993
12	11	Minutes	1994
12	12	Minutes	1995
Minutes, Misc. Documents,  1986-1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	1	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1986-1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	2	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1988-1989
13	3	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1990-1991
13	4	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1991-1992
13	5	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1992-1993
13	6	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY 1993-1994
13	7	Minutes, Misc. Documents	PY [1994]-1995
Minutes, Grant Proposals,  1987-1994.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	8	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1987-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	9	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1988-1989
13	10	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1989-1990
13	11	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1990-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
14	1	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1991-1992
14	2	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1992-1993
14	3	Minutes, Grant Proposals	PY 1993-1994
Subseries 3: Friends,  undated, 1971-1992.
Box 14, Folders 4-10 and Box 15, Folders 1-7.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: Friends of the APPEAL were primarily those persons who did not actively participate as a Trustee or Governing Board member would, but those who financially supported the APPEAL either through large grants over a period of time, or smaller, personal donations. Included in this section is correspondence from Edgar Bronfman, who supported the NAJSA with two grants in the 1970s, as well as Moses Hornstein, a longtime supporter of the APPEAL. As the majority of Friends were solicited from newspaper ads, direct mailings or through the Trustees and Governing Board members of NAJSA, thank you letters to Friends regarding their donation have mostly been discarded. The thank you acknowledgements kept within the collection (Box 15, Folders 1-6) are a sample of form letters sent over the years. Letters of a more personal nature from Friends to the APPEAL remain in the collection. Folders regarding Friends are arranged in alphabetical order.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
14	4	Bronfman, Edgar Correspondence	1975-1978
14	5	Correspondence	1971-1972
14	6	Hornstein, Moses Correspondence	1973-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date
14	7	Klutznick, Philip Correspondence	1976-1978
14	8	Leuchter (Shenberg), Magda Friends Lists	undated, 1990-1992
14	9	Lippoff, Norman Correspondence	1975-1985
14	10	Solicitation Sample Correspondence	1970s-1990s
Box	Folder	Title	Date
15	1	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1971-1975
15	2	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1976-1979
15	3	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1980-1984
15	4	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1985-1989
15	5	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1990-1991
15	6	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1992-1994
15	7	Trustee Solicitation of Friends Memos and Lists	1976, 1992-1994
Subseries 4: Rabbis,  undated, 1971-1991.
Box 15, Folders 8-9 and Box 16, Folders 1-3.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: Rabbis were an essential part of the spiritual life of the APPEAL, and were also regularly solicited for donations from their congregations. This subseries primarily contains a snapshot of the interaction of the APPEAL and various Rabbis though mailing lists, solicitations and a representative sample of thank you letters sent from the APPEAL to Rabbis. For related material on the early involvement of rabbis, see Box 20, Folder 16 for the Rabbi Irving Greenberg Parlor Benefit held in 1973 for the APPEAL.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
15	8	Mailing Lists	undated, 1971-1972, 1974
Box	Folder	Title	Date
15	9	Mailing Lists	undated, [1991?]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	1	Solicitation Sample Correspondence	[1971-1972], 1973
16	2	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1971-1975
16	3	Thank You Letters, Representative Samples	1989-1991

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Series II: Organizational Records, undated, 1971-1996.
Boxes 16 (Folders 4-17) - Box 33.
Arrangement: Organizational records of the NAJSA are divided into two subseries: general and financial records.
Scope and Content: The Organizational Records subseries was created by combining three original file organization schemes: boxes labeled "NAJSA," boxes called "National Organization," and miscellaneous files labeled "General Misc. Files” and "Old Records." Both "NAJSA" and "National Organizational" records were filed by program year, but are now arranged in alphabetical order. As the majority of materials seem to fit together, or overlapped, it was decided to combine the three into one General Records category. Records pertaining to Constituents were moved to Series III: Constituents and Financial Records were combined and moved to Subseries 2, Financial Records. Five boxes of Chronological Files (copies of outgoing office mail), 1983-1995 were discarded after confirming that outgoing copies or originals were included in the appropriate files. All in all, the Organizational Records of the collection document the everyday workings and contacts of the NAJSA beyond their Constituents, Trustees and Governing Board. In addition, records in this series contain materials on the everyday, mundane works of maintaining office space, creating campus campaign drives and direct mail campaigns and coordinating internships. Advice on furthering Jewish identity on campus was frequently asked of the APPEAL, and it is through files in the Organizational Records series that one can witness NAJSA's impact on college campuses, which is more evident in the Beneficiary Grants records, and in the wider Jewish community in regards to Jewish student life.
Subseries 1: General Records,  1970-1996.
Boxes 16 (Folders 4-17) - Box 27.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The General Records subseries focuses on the inner workings of the organization, such as the NAJSA's Constitution and By-Laws, campus campaign drives, direct mail campaigns, rental and telephone leases and bills, and promotional materials for the NAJSA. The subseries documents the organization's contact with the wider Jewish community such as the American Jewish Congress, American Zionist Youth Foundation, B'Nai B'rith/Hillel (filed under Hillel), the Jewish Association for College Youth, the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, the World Jewish Congress and the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS). (WUJS applied for constituent status to the APPEAL in 1989, see Box 37, Folder 10.) NAJSA became involved with several conferences, some sponsored by their Constituents (particularly NETWORK, RESPONSE and JSPS), as well as the Spitzer Forum on Public Policy from 1990-1994. Other conference materials include an Intermarriage Symposium in 1990, the "Visions and Voices" Interfaith Marriage Symposium in 1993, Hillel conferences, and conferences focused on women and leadership. Of note also is Box 24, Folder 2 concerning the organization Breira, of which the APPEAL and NETWORK participated in discussions sponsored by Breira concerning issues of U.S. Jewish dissent on Israeli policies toward Arabs. (See also Box 108, Folder 14 for the pamphlet Breira: Counsel for Justice by Rael Jean Issac.) Information regarding Direct Marketing Campaigns may be found in this subseries, Box 19, Folders 6-9 and Box 20, Folders 1-2. The folders contain draft correspondence to established Friends and potential donors, while the contributions records from marketing campaigns (1983-1989) is located in Subseries 2: Financial Records in Box 28, Folder 11. In 1991, NAJSA contracted with Heartland Marketing Corporation to embark on a new, more organized campaign drive. Information regarding the Heartland campaign can also be found in Subseries 2: Financial Records, Box 30, Folder 3.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	4	ABC to Jewish Activism Manual - Lara Becker Correspondence	1990
16	5	Adelphi University Rental Correspondence and Leases	1987-1989
16	6	Adelphi University Rental Correspondence and Leases	1990-1995
16	7	Administrative Assistant List of Responsibilities	undated, 1979
16	8	Alliance for Judaism and Social Justice (AJSJ) Statement of Purpose	1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	9	American Association for Ethiopian Jews	1984, 1992
16	10	American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Correspondence and Memos	1987-1993
16	11	American Jewish Committee (AJC) Correspondence	1971-1972, 1990
16	12	American Jewish Committee (AJC) National Conference on Jewish Population Growth Minutes and Correspondence	1982-1983
16	13	American Jewish Congress Correspondence	1975-1977, 1980, 1990
16	14	American Jewish Congress National Commission on Youth Minutes and Correspondence	1971-1974
16	15	American Jewish Yearbook Entry Correspondence	1975-1978; 1980-1986
16	16	American Zionist Movement (AZM) "Israel and Zionism in the Mind of American Jews" Conference Correspondence and Program	1994
16	17	American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF) Student Affairs Correspondence	1977-1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date
17	1	American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF) University Student Division Correspondence and Memos	1978-1988
17	2	American Zionist Youth Foundation University Student Department (USD/AZYF) Correspondence, Memos and Updates	1990-1993
17	3	American Zionist Youth Foundation University Student Department (USD/AZYF) Flyers, Brochures, Press Releases and Articles	1990-1993
17	4	American Zionist Youth Foundation University Student Department (USD/AZYF) Guides and Addresses	1992-1993
17	5	Annual Register of Grant Support Correspondence	1984-1985, 1990, 1993
17	6	Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith Correspondence	1974-1975
17	7	Anti-Semitism/Anti-Zionism on Campus Clippings	undated, 1988-1989
17	8	Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel (AJCOP) Correspondence and Memos	1987-1990
17	9	Board of Jewish Education Correspondence	1976-1978; 1991
17	10	Brandeis University Professional Advisory Committee of the Horstein Program in Jewish Communal Service Correspondence	1987, 1990-1991
17	11	Brochure Mock-Ups	[1971-1974]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
17	12	Brochure Mock-Ups and Correspondence	undated, 1989
17	13	By-Laws	undated, [1975]
17	14	Campus Campaign Drives Correspondence and List of Chairmen	1972-1973
17	15	Campus Campaign Drives Correspondence	1974
17	16	Campus Campaign Drives Correspondence and Fundraising Guide	1975-1976
17	17	Campus Campaign Drives Donation Correspondence	1979-1983
17	18	Campus National Committee of Small Cities Questionnaire Responses	March 1976
17	19	Canada Dept. of Finance and General Consulate Correspondence	1971
17	20	Canadian Unions of Jewish Students (Menachem Kellner) Correspondence	1971-1972
Box	Folder	Title	Date
18	1	Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) Correspondence, Proposals, Reports and Notes	undated, 1988-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
18	2	Certificate of Incorporation and Correspondence	undated, 1971-1972
18	3	Central Conference of American Rabbis Correspondence	1973
18	4	Clippings	undated, 1971-1972, 1976, 1977, 1985-1986, 1989, 1992-1994
18	5	Commission for the Absorption of Soviet Émigrés Correspondence	1977
18	6	Commission of American Jewish Life Correspondence	1977
18	7	Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE) Program Brochure, Flyers, and Poster (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Aug.11-15)	1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date
		Conference of Jewish Communal Service (CJCS) Correspondence, Memos and Programs (See Box 23, Folder 9-11: Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA))	1988-1994
18	8	Conference on Jewish Women (Second Annual) Proposal	[1974]
18	9	Constitution	undated, 1979-1984
18	10	Constitution	1985-1989
18	11	Correspondence, A-H	undated, 1971-1993
18	12	Correspondence, I-O	1971-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
19	1	Correspondence, P-Z	1971-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
19	2	Correspondence - Faxes Received	1990-1991
19	3	Correspondence - Faxes Sent	1990-1991
19	4	Council on Jewish Manpower Associations	1976-1977
19	5	Dialogue/Dor Hemshech Correspondence	1975-1977
19	6	Direct Mail Campaign	1983-1984
19	7	Direct Mail Campaign	1985
19	8	Direct Mail Campaign	1986-1987
19	9	Direct Mail Campaign	1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
20	1	Direct Mail Campaign-Oram Group Proposal and Correspondence	1984
20	2	Direct Mail Resources and Drafts	[1984]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
20	3	Draft Proposal Regarding the APPEAL	undated, [1971], [1975]
20	4	Encyclopedia of Associations Entries	1978, 1989
20	5	E.R.S. Printing Drafts and Receipts	1977-1985
20	6	Federal Proposed Projects (NEH) Request for Information	1980
20	7	Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Correspondence and Course Listings	1972, 1974-1976
20	8	Field Work Activities File - Howard Creed	1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
20	9	Flame, The (Or Chadash/New Light) Correspondence, Notes and Flyers	[1982]
20	10	Flyers and Handouts	undated, 1970s-1990s]
20	11	Forms and Letter Samples	undated
20	12	Friends of Jewish Students Newsletter	Fall 1971, June 1972
20	13	Friends of Jewish Students Newsletter Drafts and Correspondence	undated, 1971, 1984
20	14	Gevertz, Brenda "Choosing a College Jewishly" Article, Correspondence and Resume	1990-1991
20	15	Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry Correspondence	1975-1976
20	16	Greenberg, Irving (Rabbi) Benefit for NAJSA Correspondence, Lists and Invitations	1973
Box	Folder	Title	Date
21	1	Haber (William) Award Nomination	undated, [1988]
21	2	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Advisory Board Correspondence, Article and Reports	undated, 1971, 1974, 1983, 1986,
21	3	Hillel Annual Conference of Hillel Professionals Conference Packet and Program	1989, 1992
21	4	Hillel Annual Conference of Hillel Professionals Conference Packet	1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
21	5	Hillel Annual Conference of Hillel Professionals Conference Packet	[1994?]
21	6	Hillel Correspondence and Memos	1974-1979
21	7	Hillel Correspondence and Memos	1980-1989
21	8	Hillel Correspondence and Memos	undated, 1990-1995
21	9	Hillel Leaders Assembly Memos, Program and Resource	1991
21	10	Hillel Leaders Assembly Memos, Course Descriptions and Schedule	1993
21	11	Hillel National Jewish Student Issues Conference Programs and Flyers	1987-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
22	1	Hillel Partner Agency Meeting Agenda and Notes	May 23, 1994
22	2	Hillel Rabbis Contributions Correspondence and Campaign Planning Document	1972-1973
22	3	Hillel-University of Michigan 16th Annual Conference on the Holocaust Program and Clipping	1995
22	4	Histadrut - General Federation of Labour in Israel, International Department, Diaspora Section	1971, 1985
22	5	Iken, Ronald S., "American Jewish Community is Democratic, and If Not, It Shouldn't Be" Graduate Paper	January 27, 1978
22	6	In Process Materials File	1994
22	7	Institute for Non-Profit Management Correspondence	1980-1981
22	8	Inter-Generational Jewish Activists Meeting	1991
22	9	Intermarriage Symposium Correspondence and Reports	1990
22	10	Intermarriage Symposium Proceedings and Publication	1990
22	11	Internships Applications and Evaluations	1992
22	12	Internships Applications and Evaluations	1993
22	13	Internships Applications and Evaluations	1994
22	14	Israeli and American Jewish Contact Lists	[1974]
22	15	Israel Campus Activities Committee (CAC) Memos, Correspondence, Meeting Summaries and Articles	1988
22	16	Israel Campus Activities Committee (CAC) Memos, Correspondence, Meeting Summaries and Articles	1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
23	1	Israel Campus Activities Committee (CAC) Memos, Correspondence, Meeting Summaries and Articles	1990-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
23	2	Israeli Consulate (N.Y.) Correspondence, Press Releases, Election Guide, Memos	1974; 1976-1977, 1991-1993
23	3	Israeli Consulate (N.Y.) Office of Academic Affairs Project Materials and Correspondence	1991-1993
23	4	Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Background Articles	1980s
23	5	Jewish Association for College Youth (JACY) Correspondence and Memos	1971-1977
23	6	Jewish Association for College Youth (JACY) Memos, Correspondence, Subsidy Applications and Pamphlets	1978-1986
23	7	Jewish Association for College Youth (JACY) Memos	1988-1989
23	8	Jewish Association for College Youth (JACY) Mayer Fellowship Intern Agenda, Memos and Report	1994
23	9	(Conference of) Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA) Annual Meeting and Correspondence	undated, 1976, 1988-1989
23	10	(Conference of) Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA) Annual Meeting and Correspondence	undated, 1990-1992
23	11	(Conference of) Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA) Social Work Students Proposal	1987
23	12	Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York Media Guidelines and Correspondence	undated, 1990-1991
23	13	Jewish Funders Network Conference Materials	1993-1995
23	14	Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondence and Bulletins	1971-1972, 1978, 1983-1984, 1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
24	1	Jewish Theological Seminary of America Correspondence	1979, 1981
24	2	Jewish Week/Breira Controversy Correspondence, Clippings and Publication	1977
24	3	Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) Office Space Correspondence	1975-1987
24	4	Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) Sample Allocation Packet	[1975]
24	5	(American Jewish) Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)	1990-1992
24	6	Lecturers and Program Leaders Correspondence and Information	undated, 1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
24	7	Lilith Correspondence and Clippings	1976, 1985
24	8	MCI Telephone Billing Correspondence	1985-1985
24	9	Mission Statement	undated
24	10	National Conference on Jewish Women and Men (Network) Agenda, Report, Grant Applications	1974
24	11	National Conference on Soviet Jewry Program and Materials	1976, 1977
24	12	National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) Meetings Background Information Memoranda	1991-1992
24	13	National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) Meetings Background Information Memoranda	1993-1994
24	14	National Jewish Conference Center Planning Correspondence, Minutes, Proposals and Notes	1974-1975
24	15	National Organizations Miscellaneous Brochures, Pamphlets and Newsletters	[1991-1993]
24	16	National Yiddish Book Exchange Prospectus, Catalog and Newsletter	[1985]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
25	1	New York Board of Rabbis (First Annual) Israel Opportunities and Aliyah Conference Cooperating Agency Planning and Program Materials	1985-1986
25	2	New York NETWORK (American Jewish Committee Women's Forum) Announcements and Minutes	1983-1986
25	3	New York Telephone and Constituent Payment Correspondence and Bills	1974
25	4	North American Chavuroth and Assorted Simchas (N.A.C.H.A.S) Conference Planning Correspondence	1974
25	5	Office Equipment, Computer, Postal and Telephone Agreements and Correspondence	undated, 1981-1994
25	6	Office Equipment, Misc. Agreements and Correspondence	undated, 1980s-1990s
25	7	Office Inventory (APPEAL, NETWORK, JSPS)	1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date
25	8	Office Space Correspondence	1976
25	9	Operations Procedures and Structure Description	undated, 1978
25	10	Options Publishing Co. Newsletter Correction	1980
25	11	Pan-American Jewish Students' Conference (WUJS) Correspondence and Report	1973-1975
25	12	Partispayan, Willen and Zina (Soviet Jewry Family) Correspondence	1977-1980
Box	Folder	Title	Date
25	13	Postmaster General Certification and Correspondence	1978-1979
25	14	Press Releases	undated, 1976, 1979-1986, 1990
25	15	Project Dorot Elderly Program Correspondence and Grant Application	1976-1977, 1984
Box	Folder	Title	Date
26	1	Promotional and Publicity Materials	undated, [1970s-1990s]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
26	2	Prospective New York Donors Correspondence	1977
26	3	Public Interest/Public Relations (PIPR) Workshop	1982
26	4	Radius Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (Columbia University) Seminar Announcements and Memos	1980-1983
26	5	Raleigh Lithograph Company Correspondence, Bills and Mock-ups	undated, 1976, 1980-1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date
26	6	Reinberg, Evgeny and Sophia (Soviet Jewry Family) Correspondence	1976-1977
26	7	Rules of Order	undated
26	8	Small Cities Executive Institute Conference and Presentation Materials (Tamarack Lodge, Greenfield Park, NY, August 17-24)	1975
26	9	Speaking Engagements Correspondence	1973
26	10	Spitzer Forum on Public Policy (B'Nai B'Rith/Hillel Foundations) Correspondence, Notes, and Program Guide (Washington, DC, October 28-30)	1990
26	11	Spitzer Forum on Public Policy (B'Nai B'Rith/Hillel Foundations) Correspondence and Program (Washington, DC, October 20-22)	1991
26	12	Spitzer Forum on Public Policy (B'Nai B'Rith/Hillel Foundations) Correspondence, Workshop Information and Program (Los Angeles, CA, January 24-26)	1993
26	13	Spitzer Forum on Public Policy (B'Nai B'Rith/Hillel Foundations) Correspondence, Workshop Information and Program (Philadelphia, PA, February 6-8)	1994
26	14	Stationary Samples, NAJSA, Constituents and Organizations	undated
26	15	Stock Donations	1971
26	16	Supportive Community Facts for Funding: NCJCS Inter-Disciplinary Session on Jewish Education Report	[1972]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
27	1	Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) College Education Department Correspondence and Flyers	1993
27	2	United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Department of College Outreach/KOACH Correspondence and Outreach Guides	1992-1994
27	3	Varet, Elizabeth "Visions and Voices" Conference Correspondence	1992-1995
27	4	V.I.P. In the Jewish World Encyclopedia Entry	1981-1982
27	5	"Visions and Voices" Interfaith Marriage Symposium Arrangements and Correspondence	undated, 1993-1994
27	6	"Visions and Voices" Interfaith Marriage Symposium Registrations and Evaluation	undated, 1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
111	7 (OS)	"Visions and Voices" Interfaith Marriage Symposium Visual Aids and Questionnaire	undated, [1993]
27	7	Washington 1: National Jewish Student Conference On Public Policy Issues Program (Washington, DC, October 13-17)	1982
27	8	West Side Cluster Salary Reimbursement Memos	1979-1980
27	9	Williams and Co. Rental Disputes Correspondence	1975-1977
27	10	Wisconsin, State of; Dept. of Regulation and Licensing Charitable Organizations Correspondence and Memos	1980
Box	Folder	Title	Date
27	11	"Women and Leadership: A Conference of the Task Force on the Jewish Woman Commission on Synagogue Relations" Workshop Materials	1987
27	12	World Jewish Congress (WJC) Correspondence	1975-1976
27	13	World Jewish Congress (WJC) Conference on Soviet Jewry (Brussels, Belgium) Correspondence, Memos and Newsletter	1976
27	14	World Jewish Congress (WJC) Youth Commission Correspondence, Minutes, Memos, and Reports	1976-1977
27	15	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Correspondence	1971-1974
27	16	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Correspondence	1975-1978
27	17	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Correspondence	1979-1984, 1990-1991
27	18	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Institute (Arad, Israel)-Clive Lessen Correspondence and Program	1992
27	19	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Summer Seminar in Israel Information, Correspondence, Brochure and Application	1992-1993
27	20	World Zionist Organization (WZO) Correspondence	1974, 1992, 1994
27	21	Yom Kippur War Information Packet	October 1973
Subseries 2: Financial Records ,  1971-1995.
Boxes 29-34. (Box 33 contains restricted materials. Box 34 is OS 2.)
Arrangement: Arrangement is in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The NAJSA acted primarily as an umbrella fundraising arm for its Constituents. Therefore, a large portion of the collection in several series is devoted to financial matters. The most concentrated of these records can be found in Subseries 2: Financial Records, which document the overall financial transactions of the NAJSA including allocations received from Federations, income, deposit and expenditures records, financial statements of the APPEAL (Constituent statements may be found in Series III), accountants correspondence, tax returns (the 1975 return was not found in the collection), Trustee and Friend contributions and employee records (restricted material). In accordance with records management procedures, certain unnecessary information regarding financial records have been discarded. Among these records are: cancelled checks and check stub registers, deposit slips, payroll registers, petty cash receipts, banking statements and bills for messengers; office supplies, computer equipment, and telephone bills. (Telephone bills regarding disputes between NAJSA and their Constituents have been retained.) Cancelled checks regarding tax payments (federal, quarterly and payroll) have been retained. Related financial records may be found in Series III: Constituents and Series V: Federations (Subseries 1: Council for Jewish Federations, Subseries 3: Large City Budgeting Conference and Subseries 5: U.S. Cities and Canada). Documentation relating to fundraising conducted by the NAJSA to garner grants from national foundations may be found in Series VI: Fundraising.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
28	1	Allocations Received Record - Federations	1971-1979
28	2	Allocations Received Record - Federations	1979-1992
28	3	Allocations Received Record - Federations	1989-1995
28	4	Allocations Received History-Intermediate Cities (Jewish Population of 5,000-40,000)	1973-1976
28	5	Allocations Request History	1971-1973
28	6	Allocations to Constituents and Beneficiary Grants	undated, 1974-1976, 1982-1984, 1988
28	7	Bank Correspondence	1970s-1990s
28	8	Budgets and Proposed Budgets	1971-1982
28	9	Cash Income Records	1978-1986
28	10	Deposit Records	1991-1994
28	11	Direct Mail Campaign Contributions Record	1985-1989
28	12	Expenditures Record	1991-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
29	1	"Fair Share" Constituent Guidelines	1988
29	2	Financial Statements	1972-1976
29	3	Financial Statements	1977-1980
29	4	Financial Statements	1981-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date
29	5	Financial Statements	1986-1988
29	6	Financial Statements	1988-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
30	1	Foundation and Grant Awards Record	1990-1992
30	2	Friends and Rabbis Contributions Record	1971-1994
30	3	Heartland Marketing Donation Campaign Record	1991-1992
30	4	Internal Revenue Correspondence	1972-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
30	5	Insurance Policies	1989-1995
30	6	Insurance Policy Correspondence	1987-1994
30	7	Kramer Fund Campaign	1990-1991
30	8	Kramer Fund Campaign	1994-1995
30	9	Loan Contracts and Correspondence	1971-1972
30	10	New York State Department of Charitable Organization Annual Reports and Correspondence	1972-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
31	1	New York State Department of Law Correspondence	1977-1989
31	2	New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Correspondence	1973-1991
31	3	Quarterly Comparative Figures	1975-1985
31	4	Schwinger, Simons and Co., Accountants Correspondence	undated, 1971-1978
31	5	Sobel and Co. Accountants Correspondence	1978-1984
31	6	Sobel and Co. Accountants Correspondence	1985-1989
31	7	Sobel and Co. Accountants Correspondence	1990-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
32	1	State Insurance Fund Payments and Correspondence	1971-1987
32	2	State Insurance Fund Payments and Correspondence	1988-1995
32	3	Tax Returns	1971-1974, 1976-1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
32	4	Tax Returns	1988-1993
32	5	Trustees Contributions Record	1971-1993
32	6	Workmen's Circle Correspondence and Policies	1975-1980
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33	1	Employee Documentation RESTRICTED	1985, 1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33	2	Employee Unemployment Insurance Claims RESTRICTED	1976-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33	3	Fox, Robin Work File RESTRICTED	1992-1993
33	4	Gevertz, Brenda Work File RESTRICTED	1986
33	5	Gibson, Darlene Work File RESTRICTED	1976-1979
33	6	Keenan, Catherine Work File RESTRICTED	1990-1991
33	7	Mishan, Marc Work File RESTRICTED	1972
33	8	Ovadia, Seth Work File RESTRICTED	1993
33	9	Valentino, Evelyn Work File RESTRICTED	1979-1987
33	10	Wage and Withholding Tax Returns RESTRICTED	1977-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33 (59)	11 (38)	University of Illinois D'Varim Publishing Grant (From Series IV, Box 59 Folder 38) RESTRICTED	1992-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
34 OS 2	1	Constituent Allocation Ledger	undated, 1979-1987, 1989-1990
34 OS 2	2	Expenditures Ledger	1971-1982, 1987-1992
34 OS 2	3	Federation Allocation Ledger	undated, 1977-1990
34 OS 2	4	Income Ledger	1971-1982, 1987-1992
34 OS 2	5	Tax Payments - Cancelled Checks	1972-1993
34 OS 2	6	Trustee and Friends Contributions Ledger	1978-1990

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Series III: Constituent Files, undated, 1962, 1964-1995, (Bulk 1971-1995).
Boxes 35-51.
Arrangement: Arranged in eight series, one general records series, and seven subsequent series by Constituent in alphabetical order. Records for Constituents Lights in Action and the Bayit Project may be found in the General Records series.
Scope and Content: The subseries regarding Constituents follow the same general pattern, with materials specifically associated with the Constituent included. The pattern contains files on Constituent activities, allocations received, clippings, correspondence, financial statements, memos addressed to the specific Constituent, quarterly reports, and constitutions, by-laws and/or articles of incorporation. The series was created by pulling the yearly records of the Constituents from the general records, which were originally (but inconsistently) filed by program year, depending on who served as Executive Director in a given period. Since the Constituents stood on their own as separate entities under the NAJSA, it was decided to pull all files and documents regarding the Constituents from the original pattern of the collection and file them together. In rearranging the documents in this way, each Constituent could be regarded on its own merit and researched accordingly. However, the materials included for the Constituents do not act as a primary collection. Each of the following Constituent subseries serves as a snapshot of each Constituent, not as a complete record. For related collections within the American Jewish Historical Society regarding certain Constituents, please see Related Materials. Originally Constituent files consisted of certain materials filed under 'Activities,' 'Maps,' and 'Updates.' These files served the purpose of informing the APPEAL of each Constituent's activities for any given period for inclusion in reports written to national and local federations, plus various other fundraising devices. 'Activities' folders sent by the Constituent outlined specific activities of the Constituent. 'Updates' were listed activities by month and very similar in nature to 'Activities' reports. 'Maps' of the United States and Canada were handed in by each Constituent showing where activities were held or outreach conducted in the form of mailings or events throughout North America. Due to the overlapping nature of these items, they have been collectively filed under 'Activities,' by decade. Also, this section is inconsistent as 'Maps' were only used during the latter years of the 1970s and the Constituents were inconsistent in recording and sending reports to the APPEAL regarding activities conducted.
Subseries 1: General Records,  undated, 1968, 1970-1995.
Box 35-37 (Folders 1-11).
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The General Records of the Constituents contains materials concerning the Constituents as a group, including their combined allocation presentations to the NAJSA for the Federations, group memos, allocation 'fair share' formulas and funds distribution votes; miscellaneous budget and financial records, biographies and a joint symposium held by JSPS and RESPONSE in 1991. One folder is dedicated to a dispute between JSPS and NETWORK (Box 36, Folder 14). Two additional Constituents are also included in the General Records, the Progressive Zionist Caucus' Bayit Project, and Lights in Action (LIA). Other material includes applications from organizations wishing to become Constituents of the APPEAL, including the National Jewish Law Students Network, the World Union of Jewish Students, North American Division, and Yavneh Olami, a program devoted to a world network of Jewish religious students. Finally, Box 36, Folder 9 "Coalition and Hillel Meeting, 1995," provides documentation on a meeting between a delegation of Constituent Governing Board members and Hillel to determine the future direction of the funding of the two groups by Federations.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
35	1	Activities-All Constituents	undated, [1981], 1985
35	2	Allocations	1976-1979
35	3	Allocation Distribution Votes	1980-1986
35	4	Allocation "Fair Share" Formulas	[1973], [1986], [1988-1989]
35	5	Allocation Form Templates	1980s
35	6	Allocation Presentations with Quarterly Reports	1972-1973
35	7	Allocation Presentations	1989
35	8	Allocation Presentations	1990
35	9	Allocation Presentations	1991
35	10	Allocation Presentations	1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
35	11	Allocation Presentations	1993
35	12	Allocation Presentations	1994
35	13	Allocation Review Procedures	[1980], 1990-1994
35	14	Bayit Project Allocations, Budget and Internal Revenue Correspondence	1985-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
36	1	Bayit Project Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws	undated, 1983, 1985
36	2	Bayit Project "Bayit-You'll Like It!' Conference	1985
36	3	Bayit Project Brochures and Mailings	undated, [1984, 1990]
36	4	Bayit Project Clippings	undated, 1985, 1987
36	5	Bayit Project Correspondence	1980, 1985, 1987-1989
36	6	Bayit Project Information and Operations Manual	undated, 1984-1985, 1988
36	7	Bayit Project Notes and Articles, Miscelleneous	undated, [1985]
36	8	Budgets-Proposed	1974-1975
36	9	Coalition and Hillel Meeting	1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
36	10	Constituent Biographies	1971-[1974]
36	11	Constituent Information, Federation Reports	1973-1974
36	12	Constituent Information	1993-1995
36	13	Financial Records	1970-1972
Box	Folder	Title	Date
36	14	JSPS/NETWORK Dispute Correspondence	1989
36	15	Lights in Action (LIA) Allocations	1993-1995
36	16	Lights in Action (LIA) Clipping	1994
36	17	Lights in Action (LIA) Correspondence	1992-1995
36	18	Lights in Action (LIA) Flyers and Mailings	undated, 1993, [1994-1995]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
37	1	Lights in Action (LIA) Israel Sourcebook and Haggadah	undated, 1994
37	2	Memos-All Constituents	undated, 1972-1977
37	3	Memos-All Constituents	undated, 1978-1984
37	4	Memos-All Constituents	undated, 1985-1992
37	5	"Multiculturalism, Jews, and the Campus," JSPS/RESPONSE Symposium	1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
37	6	National Jewish Law Students Network (Jordan Horvath) Constituent Application and Correspondence	1985-1986
37	7	News Update	1979
37	8	Pending Constituent Status Organizations	1968, 1971-1972
37	9	Student Contacts	undated, [1993-1994]
37	10	World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) North America Constituent Documentation	1989
37	11	Yavneh Olami (World Organization of Religious Students and B'nei Yeshivot) Correspondence and Flyers	undated, 1989-1990
Subseries 2: Jewish Students Press Service (JSPS),  undated, 1971-1995.
Box 37 (Folder 12) - 40.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: In addition to following the general pattern of Constituent records, information on JSPS' national and New York editor's conferences, plus additional information on JSPS and RESPONSE’s multiculturalism symposium may be found in Subseries 2. During the early 1990s, a dispute between JSPS and the NAJSA led to accusations of monetary mismanagement on the part of both groups. Documentation of this dispute may be found in Box 38, Folder 13 and Box 39, Folder 1. Other material includes funding proposals, a reorganization draft, and a pledge proposal from a private donor. Correspondence concerning the creation of JSPS' current publication, New Voices, which began in 1991, can be found in Box 38, Folder 12. Editions of the newspaper may be found in Series VII: Publications and Printed Matter, Subseries 1: Constituents, Newspaper Format, New Voices.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
37	12	Activities	undated, 1974-1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
38	1	Activities	1983-1987, 1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
38	2	Allocations	1970s
38	3	Allocations	1980s
38	4	Allocations	1990-1995
38	5	Allocation Requests	1990
38	6	Annual Report	1973-1975
38	7	Berman (Herbert) Pledge Proposal	1994
38	8	Budget	1972
38	9	Clippings	undated, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1981, 1987, [1992?]
38	10	Correspondence	1971-1978
38	11	Correspondence	1988-1990
38	12	Correspondence	1991-1995
38	13	Deposit Investigation-Allocations and Subscriptions	1991-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
39	1	Deposit Investigation-Bank Statements and Checks	1991-1994
39	2	Editors and Publications List	1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
39	3	Financial Statements	1975-1977
39	4	Financial Statements	1978-1979
39	5	Financial Statements	1980-1983
39	6	Financial Statements	1984-1987
39	7	Flyers	undated, [1974], 1993
39	8	Funding Proposals	1990, 1993
39	9	Funding Proposals	1994-1995
39	10	Internal Revenue Service Correspondence	1972
39	11	Memos	1976-1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
40	1	Memos	1983-1986
40	2	Memos	1987-1989
40	3	Minutes	June 3-5, 1973; April 24, 1977
40	4	Multiculturalism, Jews and The Campus: A Symposium	1991
40	5	National Editor's Conference	1976-1977, 1981-1982, 1984, 1988, 1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
40	6	New York Area Editor's Conference	1976
40	7	Overdue Rent Correspondence	1990-1991
40	8	Press Releases	undated, 1978, 1982, 1983
40	9	Press Releases-Other Organizations	undated, 1993
40	10	Reorganization Draft Reports	[1987]
40	11	Student Editors Seminar, Israel	1976, 1981
40	12	Quarterly Reports	1970s
40	13	Quarterly Reports	1980s
Subseries 3: North American Jewish Students’ Network (NETWORK),  undated, 1971-1986, 1989.
Box 41 - Box 43 (Folders 1-9).
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: In addition to the pattern of materials found in this subseries, there are documents concerning the New Jewish Media Project (also a grant beneficiary), materials on regional conferences and conventions by NETWORK, a pamphlet entitled "What is NETWORK?", containing a brief history of the group, and materials concerning non-compliance violations and grievance issues between the NAJSA and NETWORK. After a series of incidents that violated NAJSA By-Laws, NETWORK withdrew from the APPEAL in 1985. Information concerning this dispute and its subsequent resolution are located in Box 42, Folders 10-12 and Box 43, Folder 1.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
41	1	Accountant Statements	1979-1980
41	2	Activities	1971-1979
41	3	Activities	1980-1984
41	4	Allocations	1976-1983
41	5	Alternatives in Jewish Education Conference	1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date
41	6	Annual Reports	1973-1975
41	7	Brochures and Flyers	undated, 1981, 1985
41	8	By-Laws, Certificate of Incorporation, Constitution and Resolutions	1970s-1980s
Box	Folder	Title	Date
41	9	Clippings	1970s-1980s
41	10	Conventions	1972, 1975, 1977-1979, 1981, 1983
Box	Folder	Title	Date
42	1	Correspondence	n.d, 1971-1979
42	2	Correspondence	1982-1986, 1989
42	3	Financial Statements	1975-1982
42	4	Funding Proposal	1971-1972
Box	Folder	Title	Date
42	5	Internal Revenue Correspondence	1971
42	6	Memos	undated, 1971, 1976-1980
42	7	Memos	1981-1983
42	8	Minutes	November 29, 1970 and January 13-14, 1973
42	9	New Jewish Media Proposal	[1975]
42	10	Non-Compliance Motion Documents	1979-1982
42	11	Non-Compliance Motion Financial Penalty Documents	1984-1985
42	12	Non-Compliance Motion Memoranda of Agreement	1978-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
43	1	Non-Compliance Motion Monies Owed to NAJSA Correspondence and Notes	1979-1982
43	2	Overdue Rent and Floor Plan Correspondence and Memos	1980-1981
43	3	Press Kit	1983
43	4	Press Releases	undated, 1978, 1984
43	5	Program Proposals	1974-1976, 1981
43	6	Regional Conferences and Leadership Development Seminars	1973-1976, 1980-1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date
43	7	Quarterly Reports	1970s
43	8	Quarterly Reports	1980-1982
43	9	"What is Network?: The History and Activities of the North American Jewish Students' Network"	[1975]
Subseries 4: Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC),  undated, 1986-1995.
Box 43 (Folders 10-12) - Box 45 (Folders 1-4).
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The records regarding the Progressive Zionist Caucus follow the pattern of materials found in this Series. Additional materials include PZC Governing Board (known as Mazkirut) minutes and agendas, grant proposals, and PZC's constituent application and review materials.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
43	10	Activities	1980s
43	11	Activities	1990s
43	12	Allocations	1987-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
44	1	Allocation Requests	1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
44	2	Atlanta/Georgia Regional Coordinator Correspondence	undated, 1994
44	3	Board (Mazkirut) Agendas and Minutes	undated, 1988, 1991, 1993-1994
44	4	Brochures	undated
44	5	By-Laws, Certificate of Incorporation and Constitution	undated, 1981-1989
44	6	Clippings	undated, 1986-1988, 1990-1994
44	7	Constituent Status Membership Review	undated, 1986-1987, 1990
44	8	Correspondence	1980s
44	9	Correspondence	undated, 1990s
44	10	Director Applications	1992
44	11	Flyers	undated, 1980s-1990s
44	12	Foundation Proposals	undated, 1989-1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
45	1	Grant Proposals and Correspondence	undated, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991-1992
45	2	Internal Revenue Service Correspondence	1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
45	3	Program Reports for LCBC Narratives and Grants	1990-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
45	4	Quarterly Report	January-March 1987
Subseries 5: Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review (Jewish Educational Services, Inc.) (RESPONSE),  undated, 1970-1995.
Box 45 (Folders 5-11) - Box 46 (Folders 1-15).
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The materials in this subseries closely follow the pattern of materials found within this Series. Other than the standard materials, there is one file of correspondence that outlines the financial crisis of the organization (an on-going battle) located in Box 46, Folder 5. The collection contains only one copy of the publication Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review in Box 99, Folder 12. However, the American Jewish Historical Society houses a collecton of the journals.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
45	5	Activities	1975-1976, 1979
45	6	Activities	undated, [1982-1984], 1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
45	7	Allocations	1970s
45	8	Allocations	1980s
45	9	Allocations	1990s
45	10	Allocation Presentations	1990, 1993-1994
45	11	By-Laws and Incorporation	1970, 1978, 1987-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
46	1	By-Laws and Incorporation	1990
46	2	By-Laws and Incorporation	1991
46	3	Correspondence	undated, 1971-1974
46	4	Correspondence	undated, 1983-1991
46	5	Financial Situation Correspondence	1971-1972
46	6	Financial Statements	1971, 1974-1979
46	7	Financial Statements	1980-1985, 1987
46	8	Internal Revenue Service Correspondence	1991, 1994
46	9	LCBC Budgets and Partial Narrative	1987, 1990
46	10	Memos	undated, 1976-1991
46	11	Minutes	1970, 1971, 1972
Box	Folder	Title	Date
46	12	NAJSA Advertisement	[1975-1976]
46	13	Program Proposals	1992-1995
46	14	Quarterly Reports	1975-1979
46	15	Quarterly Reports	1980s
Subseries 6: Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (with the Center for Russian Jewry) (SSSJ),  undated, 1967, 1971-1991.
Box 46 (Folder 16) - Box 49 (Folders 1-3).
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: The Constituent records regarding SSSJ contain several areas of note besides the records that follow the pattern of the Series. The Flyers and Mailings (Box 48, Folders 1-3) along with the SSSJ's Press Releases (Box 48, Folders 8-12) give detail to the overall activities of this group more fully than the other Constituents in Series III. In addition, the subseries contains testimony by Jacob Birnbaum, a Founder of SSSJ, appearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means concerning Jewish immigration policy in Romania. Also of note are issues of SSSJ's publication The New Heroes, Books I-III, a printed collection of photographs of individuals and families attempting to immigrate from the Soviet Union; the Oct.-Nov. 1978 issue of Freedom!, and a small collection of the Soviet Jewry Action Newsletter. SSSJ was the most vocal and respected of the APPEAL Constituents, and the materials reflect the dynamism behind SSSJ's actions on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Ephemera and posters from this subseries may be found in Series VIII, Subseries 1: Ephemera and Subseries 2: Posters, and correspondence from Susan Dessel to two pen-pal families sponsored from SSSJ, the Partispayan Family ( Box 25, Folder 12) and the Reinberg Family ( Box 26, Folder 8).
Box	Folder	Title	Date
46	16	Activities	1967, 1971-1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date
47	1	Activities	1978-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date
47	2	Activities	1986-1990
47	3	Allocations	1970s
47	4	Allocations	1980s
47	5	Banking Documents	1991
47	6	Birnbaum, Jacob U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Statement Re: Romanian Immigration Policy	June 15, 1978
47	7	Brochures and Postcards	undated, [1970s]
47	8	Budgets and Proposed Budgets	1970s
47	9	Clippings	undated, 1970-1979
47	10	Clippings	undated, 1980-1990
47	11	Correspondence	1971-1979
47	12	Correspondence	1980-1985
47	13	Correspondence	1986-1991
47	14	Financial Reports	1971-1976
47	15	Financial Reports	1977-1979
47	16	Financial Statements	1979-1985
47	17	Financial Statements	1986-1987
47	18	Freedom!	October-November, 1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date
48	1	Flyers and Mailings	undated, [1970s]
48	2	Flyers and Mailings	undated, [1980s]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
48	3	Flyers and Mailings	undated, [1990s]
48	4	Internal Revenue Service Correspondence	1967
48	5	Materials and Services Available List	undated, [1971-1973]
48	6	Memos	1978-1991
48	7	"New Heroes, The," Books I- III	1974, 1976
48	8	Press Releases	undated, 1975-1979
48	9	Press Releases	1981-1984, 1986
48	10	Press Releases	1987
48	11	Press Releases	1988
48	12	Press Releases	1989-1991
48	13	Press Release Narratives	undated, [1978, 1984, 1987-1989]
48	14	Program Reports	1972, 1990-1991
48	15	Quarterly Reports	1973-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	1	Quarterly Reports	1980s
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	2	Soviet Jewry Action Newsletter	June 1971; Rosh Hashanah 1976; April 27, 1976, 1977
49	3	Subscriptions	1990
Subseries 7: Yavneh Religious Students Organization (YAVNEH),  undated, 1962, 1964, 1971-1981.
Box 49, Folders 4-23.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: YAVNEH withdrew from the APPEAL in January 1978 due to financial difficulties and a somewhat stormy relationship with the APPEAL. The material within this subseries documents some of YAVNEH's activities, but mostly provides information regarding its relationship with the NAJSA. The subseries also includes the program from YAVNEH's 17th annual convention in 1976, and a publication entitled "The Purim Peace" (Box 49, Folders 18 and 21, respectively). One copy of YAVNEH's publication of Dispatch and several copies of Kol Yavneh: The Official Publication of Yavneh can be found in Box 99, Folder 13.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	4	Activities	undated, 1973-1977
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	5	Activities	1979-1981
49	6	Allocations	1970s-1980s
49	7	Articles of Incorporation	1962
49	8	Brochures	undated, 1979-1981
49	9	Budgets and Proposed Budgets	1970s
49	10	Correspondence	undated, 1971-1979
49	11	Executive Board	1971-1974, 1979-1980
49	12	Financial Reports	1973-1980
49	13	Flyers	undated, 1979-1980
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	14	Governing Board Minutes (NAJSA) Regarding Yavneh	September 14, 1976, 1977, 1979
49	15	Internal Revenue Correspondence	1964
49	16	Memos	1976-1981
49	17	Narratives	undated
49	18	National Labor Day Convention, 17th Annual, Program	September 2-6, 1976
49	19	Newsletters	1972, 1976
49	20	Press Releases	undated, 1979
49	21	"Purim Peace, The"	[1979-1980]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
49	22	Quarterly Reports	1975-1980
49	23	Tear Sheet	1979
Subseries 8: Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish (YUGNTRUF),  undated, 1965-1966, 1971-1995.
Box 50-51.
Arrangement: Arranged by alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: Yugntruf: Youth for Yiddish, was the second oldest (after SSSJ) established Constituent organization of the NAJSA. Founded in 1965, the organization's aim was to promote and present the Yiddish language, literature, and culture to Yiddish speakers and those learning the language. YUGNTRUF published (and continues to publish) a journal by the same name, filled with new literature on the cultural and political works of Yiddishkeits. This subseries documents YUGNTRUF's relationship with the NAJSA and contains some specialized work on the part of YUGNTRUF's promotion of Yiddish, including one issue of the Bilingual Family Newsletter, flyers and mailings in English and Yiddish, and several Yiddish/English Political Terminology Vocabulary Guides (Box 51, Folder 12). The remainder of the files in this Subseries follows the general pattern of records found in the Series. In addition, the collection holds a good quantity of YUGNTRUF journals, located in Series VII: Publications and Printed Matter, Subseries 1: NAJSA and Constituents, Box 100.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
50	1	Activities	undated, 1971-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
50	2	Activities	1980-1989
50	3	Activities	1990-1994
50	4	Allocations	1976-1979
50	5	Allocations	1980-1988
50	6	Allocations	1989-1995
50	7	Allocations Review	1990-1994
50	8	Bilingual Family Newsletter, Special Issue on Yiddish	1985
50	9	Board of Directors and Campus Representatives	1971, 1972
50	10	Brochures	undated, 1986
50	11	Budgets	1971-1972
50	12	By-Laws, Constitution and Incorporation	1965, 1966, 1973
50	13	Clippings	undated, 1976, 1979-1993
50	14	Conferences on Yiddish	1973, 1977, 1980-1981, 1983-1986, 1991
50	15	Correspondence	1971-1973, 1976-1978
50	16	Correspondence	undated, 1982, 1985-1990
50	17	Correspondence	1991-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
51	1	Financial Statements	1973-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
51	2	Financial Statements	1980s
51	3	Flyers and Mailings	undated, 1973-1990
51	4	Internal Revenue Service Correspondence	1968
Box	Folder	Title	Date
51	5	Memos	undated, 1974-1989
51	6	Narratives	undated, 1987, [1990]
51	7	Newsletters	1975, 1977-1978, 1980-1989
51	8	Press Releases	1972, 1975, 1984, 1986
51	9	Program Proposals	undated, 1984
51	10	Quarterly Reports	1970s
51	11	Quarterly Reports	1980s
51	12	Yiddish/English Political Terminology Vocabulary Guides	undated, 1992, 1994

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Series IV: Beneficiary Grants, undated, 1971-1995.
Boxes 52-61 (Folders 1-24).
Arrangement: The Beneficiary Grants series is divided into two subseries, General Records ( Box 52, Folders 1-7) and Grants Made by Program Year (Box 52-61).
Scope and Content: Overall, the series documents one of the founding cornerstones of the NAJSA: promoting Jewish identity on college campuses by providing fledging Jewish-centered publications and organizations publishing and programming grants to help provide for a rebirth of Jewish identity among American college-aged Jews. The NAJSA stressed the need to fund 'grass-roots' projects that would not necessarily be sanctioned by the larger student sponsored organizations such as Hillel.
Subseries 1: General Records,  undated, 1971-1995.
Box 52, Folders 1-7.
Arrangement: Arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Content: This subseries primarily documents miscellaneous correspondence and proposals regarding NAJSA's grants program. Also included are lists of grants made by year (1987-1995), development proposals for extending the grants program, and a press release announcing the first Bikurim (First Fruits) Award honoring outstanding beneficiary grant programs. In addition, there is a folder concerning the "Minhagim," or oral tradition of guidelines and policies involved in Beneficiary Grants made through the APPEAL, and a document (incomplete) compiled by several members of the Governing Board on planning a Holocaust remembrance event on campus.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	1	Correspondence, Misc.	1979-1985, 1990-1991
52	2	Development Proposal and Bikurim Award Press Release	undated
52	3	Forms and College Recipients List	undated, [1987-1995]
52	4	Fundraising Sample Packet	[1991]
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	5	"Minhagim" (Oral Tradition) Guidelines and Policies for Beneficiary Grants	undated, [1993-1994?]
52	6	Miscellaneous Proposals	undated, 1987-1993
52	7	"Planning a Holocaust Remembrance Week" Document	undated
Subseries 2: Grants Made by Program Year,  1971-1995.
Boxes 52 (Folders 8-24) - 61 (Folder 1-24).
Arrangement: The subseries is informally arranged in alphabetical order according to the Program Year based on the school calendar year of September-June.
Scope and Content: Subseries 2 documents each beneficiary grant award made by the NAJSA over a 24-year period, beginning in 1971 with the awarding of two grants to 1995, when 22 grants provided extra publishing and programming funds to student groups. Contents of each file may include the following: initial application or correspondence, program flyers and mailings, materials printed for the event including programs, literature, and evaluations of the program by the beneficiary. For publishing grants, each beneficiary was required to send journals and newspapers to the NAJSA (or JSPS, a co-sponsor of several of the college papers and journals, who would then forward copies to the APPEAL). These journals, newspapers, and some oversized newsletters may be found in Series VII: Publications and Printed Matter, Subseries 2: Beneficiaries (By Format). In addition, Series VIII, Subseries 2: Posters ( Box 111, Folders 6 and 7) highlight the promotional materials of several events, including posters and oversized newspaper advertisements. Series X: Audio and Video Tapes contains one VHS recording of Dr. Leon Bass, an African-American serviceman who, in 1945, was one of the first U.S. servicemen at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. Bass gave a series of lectures at various universities on his experiences in 1994 and 1995. The video records his comments at a University of Michigan Holocaust Remembrance Celebration event in 1994. Box 53, Folder 21 documents a grant given to the New Jewish Media Project, which sprang out of NETWORK programming. The NJMP was created to act as a clearinghouse for film and television programming based on Jewish themes. (See also Box 42, Folder 9, Box 52, Folder 14, Box 96, Folder 11, and Box 111, Folder 7 for more information.). Overall, the programs and publications documented in this subseries gives an overview to the types of programming that evolved over the years in regards to campus activity directed at the Jewish student body. Beneficiary grants were provided to a wide range of groups along the myriad voices, left, right and centrist of Jewish student life. Shabbat and Passover program development, conventions on multiculturism and racism, Israel cultural programming, arts festivals, seminars and film series were among the programs funded through the NAJSA. In the final year of the APPEAL, grant money was awarded to a Stanford University program entitled: Members of the Tribe: A Weekend for Jewish Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual College Student and Young Adults. The strength of the Beneficiary Grants program, however, lay in the help NAJSA offered to new and established campus and non-campus (Lilith) journals and newspapers. This part of the subseries offers an insightful voice over the span of 24 years concerning Jewish-oriented student events on the American campus.
Program Year,  1971-1972.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	8	Hampshire College Encounter with Holocaust Course Development Proposal	1972
52	9	Havuret Shalom Programming Grant	1971-1972
Program Year,  1972-1973.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	10	Kol Hai Programming Grant Correspondence	1973
52	11	Radical Zionist Alliance (PZA) Convention Grant Proposal and Constituent Status Proposal	1972-1973
Program Year,  1973-1974.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	12	American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF) N.A.C.H.A.S. Convention Matching Grant	1974
52	13	Jewish Arts and Crafts Conference Public Relations Grant	1974
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	14	New Jewish Media Project Grant Proposal	1973-1974
52	15	Pending Proposals	1973-1974
Program Year,  1974-1975.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	16	DIRSHU College Outreach Programming Grant	undated, 1975
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	17	Jewish Arts Quarterly Publication Grant	1974-1976
52	18	Lilith Publishing Grant Proposal	1974-1975
52	19	Recipients List	1974-1975
52	20	T'Chiya Volunteer Program Grant	1974-1975
Program Year,  1975-1976.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
52	21	Carleton College Minnesota Union of Jewish Students Conference Grant	1975-1976
52	22	Cornell-Ithaca Friends of Israel Programming Grant	1975
52	23	Davka Publishing Grant	1972; 1975-1976
52	24	Denied Proposals	1975-1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	1	DIRSHU College Outreach Publications Grant	1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	2	Habitat International Student Competition Planning for Urban Cooperation (Amos Gitai) Funding Grant	1976
53	3	Jewish New York Publishing Grant	1975-1976
53	4	Kent State University Ha-Kol Publishing Grant	1975-1976
53	5	New Ohio Union of Jewish Students (NOUJS) Educational Packet Project Grant	1975-1976
53	6	Recipients List	1975-1976
53	7	Search: A Contemporary Journal of Jewish Affairs for the College Student Publishing Grant	1976
53	8	Socialist-Zionist Conference Funding Grant	1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	9	Southwest Students Conference Chai L'Chaim Travel Subsidies Grant	undated, 1975
53	10	University of Massachusetts Zamir Broadcasting Grant	1975
53	11	Washington University-Seattle Israel Awareness Week Programming Grant	1975- 1976
Program Year,  1976-1977.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	12	ADELANTRE!: The Judezmo Society Sephardic Literary Art Magazine Publishing Grant	1976-1977
53	13	Brooklyn College Three Families Documentary Film Project Grant	1976-1977
53	14	California State University-Northridge Total Communication Havurah TTY Telephone Purchase Grant	1976-1977
53	15	Davka Publishing Grant	1976-1977
53	16	Denied Proposals	1976-1977
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	17	Jewish Free University (Philadelphia, PA) Lehrhaus Seminar Series Grant	1977
53	18	Kosher Kitchen (Washington, DC) Cultural Programming	1976-1977
53	19	Rutgers University Jewish Review Publishing Grant	1976-1977
53	20	Michigan State University Ha'Am Publishing Grant	1976
53	21	New Jewish Media Project Funding Grant and Catalog	1976-1977
53	22	Washington University (St. Louis, MS) Hamakor Publishing Grant	1977
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	23	Bay Area Jewish Women's Collective Programming Grant	1977-1978
53	24	Denied Proposals	1977-1978
53	25	Harvard Jewish Law Students Association Programming	1977-1978
53	26	Pending Proposals	1977-1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	27	State University College of Technology-Utica "Shalom" Programming Grant	1977-1978
Program Year,  1978-1979.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	28	California Jewish Student Association Committee Publishing Grant	1978-1979
53	29	Denied Proposals	1978-1979
53	30	Harvard Business School Jewish Student's Association Programming Grant	1978-1979
53	31	Harvard Jewish Law Students Association Programming	1979
53	32	Indiana University Israel Bazaar Programming Grant	1978-1979
53	33	Joys of Judaism Israel Summer Retreat Funding Grant	1978-1979
53	34	Pending Proposals	1978-1979
53	35	Pennsylvania State University Emek Sameah Publishing	1978-1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date
53	36	Recipients List	1978-1979
53	37	State University of New York-Albany The Spirit Publishing Grant	1978-1979
53	38	T'Chiya Volunteer Program in Israel's Development Camps Funding Grant	1978
53	39	Tufts University HaKol Publishing Grant	1978-1979
53	40	University of California-Berkeley Ha'Etgar Publishing	1978-1979
53	41	University of California-Berkeley Jewish Radical Publishing Grant	1978-1979
53	42	University of Massachusetts Zamir Broadcasting Grant	1978-1979
Program Year,  1979-1980.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	1	Book Peddler: The Newsletter of the National Yiddish Book Exchange Publishing Grant	1980
54	2	Brandeis University Focus Publishing Grant	1979-1980
54	3	City College of New York Hillel Children of Survivors Group Programming Grant	1979-1980
54	4	Denied Proposals	1979-1980
54	5	Genesis 2 (Boston, MA) Advertising Grant	1979-1980
54	6	Hebrew Theological College Jewish Information Center Funding Grant	1979-1980
54	7	Hillel Eastern Winter Institute (HEWI) Programming Grant	1979
54	8	T'Chiya Volunteer Program Grant	1980
54	9	University of Florida Challenge Publishing Grant	1979-1980
Program Year,  1980-1981.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	10	Americans for Progressive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair Israel Summer Seminar Programming and Film Grants	1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	11	Brandeis University Focus Publishing Grant	1980
54	12	Denied Proposals	1980-1981
54	13	Genesis 2 (Boston, MA) Advertising Grant	1980-1981; 1982
54	14	International Committee for the Yeliastratovs Rally Funding Grant	1980-1981
54	15	International Committee to Free the Peritsky Family Project Grant	1980
54	16	Recipients List	1980-1981
54	17	Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry Funding Grant	1980-1981
54	18	University of Florida Jewish Student Union (JSU) Israeli Cultural Festival Grant	1980-1981
54	19	York University (Ontario, CA) Images Publishing Grant	1980-1981
Program Year,  1981-1982.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	20	Denied Proposals	1981-1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	21	Indiana University Israel Bazaar Programming Grant	1982
54	22	Pennsylvania State University Yachad Chapter Programming Grant	1981-1982
54	23	Shmate Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought Publishing Grant	1982
54	24	Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry Funding Grant	1982
Program Year,  1982-1983.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	25	Columbia University Perspectives Publishing Grant	1982-1983
54	26	Denied Proposals	1982-1983
Box	Folder	Title	Date
54	27	Hashomer Hatzair Archives Funding Grant	1982-1983
54	28	Philadelphia Prism, The Publishing Grant	undated, 1983
54	29	Shofar: The Five College Jewish Newspaper Publishing	1982-1983
54	30	State University of New York-Oneonta The Pillar Publishing Grant	1982
54	31	University of California-Berkeley Israel Education Day Funding Grant	1983
54	32	University of Massachusetts Zamir Broadcasting Grant	1982-1983
54	33	University of Minnesota Jewish Student Press Publishing	1982-1983
54	34	University of South Florida Israel Action Committee Israeli Programs Fair Grant	1983
54	35	University of Vermont Jewish Action Committee Programming Grant	1982-1983
54	36	Yale University A Jewish Journal at Yale Publishing	1982-1983
Program Year,  1983-1984.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	1	Americans for Progressive Israel Anielewicz Circle Programming Grant	1983
55	2	Denied Proposals	1983-1984
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	3	Kansas City Jewish Students Coalition Programming Grant	1983-1984
55	4	Rutgers University Perspectives Publishing Grant	1984
55	5	State University of New York-Stony Brook The Shining Star Publishing Grant	1984
55	6	University of Kansas Lawrence Student Organization Retreat Grant	1984
55	7	University of Rochester Kesher-The Connection Publishing Grant	1983-1984
55	8	Waterloo (CA) Jewish Students Association "An Evening on Ethiopian Jewry" Programming Grant	1984
Program Year,  1984-1985.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	9	Denied Proposals	1984-1985
55	10	Queens College Ha-Or Publishing Grant	1984
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	11	Tulane University Israel Action Committee Soviet Jewry Lobby Conference Grant	1985
55	12	University of Judaism Israel Education Day Programming	1985
55	13	Women's Rabbinical Students Conference Grant	1985
Program Year,  1985-1986.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	14	Boston University Freedom Music: A Tribute to Black South Africans and Soviet Jews Performance Grant	1986
55	15	Brandeis University Focus Publishing Grant	1985-1986
55	16	Philadelphia SSSJ Transportation Grant	1986
55	17	Shofar: The Five College Jewish Newspaper Publishing	1986
55	18	Tulane University Israel Awareness Programming Grant	1986
55	19	University of California-Santa Cruz Leviathan Publishing	1986
55	20	University of Massachusetts Israel Independence Day David Broza Concert Grant	1986
55	21	University of Michigan Union of Students for Israel Terrorism in the Middle East Seminar Grant	1986
Program Year,  1986-1987.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	22	Columbia University Students for Israel Wallid Walla Lecture Grant	1986-1987
55	23	Denied Proposals	1986-1987
55	24	Florida International University Jewish Awareness	1986-1987
55	25	Kenyon College Hillel Passover Seder	1987
55	26	National Jewish Law Students Review Journal Publishing Grant	1986-1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	27	Rollins College A Guide to Jewish Orlando Publication Grant Correspondence	January 6, 1987
55	28	Shofar: The Five College Jewish Newspaper Publishing Grant	1986-1987
55	29	University of Massachusetts Jewish Arts Festival Programming Grant	1986-1987
55	30	University of Miami Hurrikan Publishing Grant	1987
55	31	University of Michigan Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Programming Grant	1987
55	32	University of Michigan SSSJ Solidarity Day Program	1987
Program Year,  1987-1988.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	33	Denied Proposals	1987-1988
55	34	Harvard-Radcliffe Reisman Center for Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel 40th Anniversary Celebration for Israel	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
55	35	Georgia Israel Public Affairs Committee (GIPAC) Israel Week Programming Grant	1987-1988
55	36	Israel at Forty (Philadelphia) Conference Grant	1988
55	37	Jewish Campus Activity Board (Philadelphia, PA) Kibbutz Week Programming Grant	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	1	National Jewish Law Review Publishing Grant	1987-1988
56	2	Pennsylvania State Friends of Israel Yachad News Publishing Grant	1988
56	3	Recipients List	1987-1988
56	4	Rochester Institute of Technology Travel to Soviet Union Subsidy Grant	1988
56	5	State University of New York-Buffalo Ari Publishing Grant	1988
56	6	Tufts University From the Ideology of Zionism to the Reality of Israel at Forty Symposium Grant	1988
56	7	University of Florida Jewish Student News Publishing Grant	1987-1988
56	8	University of Wisconsin-Madison Genesis Advertising Grant	1987-1988
56	9	University of Wisconsin-Madison Racism Hotline and Julius Lest Lecture Grants	1988
56	10	Yale University Urim v'Tumin Publishing Grant	1987-1988
Program Year,  1988-1989.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	11	Brandeis Footsteps Grant Correspondence	Nov. 18, 1988
56	12	Brooklyn College Hatikvah Publishing Grant	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	13	Columbia University Students for Israel "The Politics of Modern Israel: Beyond the Myth" Conference Grant	1988-1989
56	14	Denied Proposals	1988-1989
56	15	Fairfield University Arney and the Rabbi Radio Program	1989
56	16	Ithaca College Northeast Region Conference for Jewish Students Funding Grant	1989
56	17	McGill University (Toronto, CA) Network Against Racism and Bigotry Anti-Discrimination Brochure Publishing	1989
56	18	Recipients List	1988-1989
56	19	Tufts University Oppressed Jewry Committee Postcard Campaign Grant	1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	20	Tufts University Woody Allen Film Series and Exhibition Funding Grant	1989
56	21	University of Illinois-IllinIPAC Camp David Accords 10th Anniversary Commemoration Programming Grant	1989
56	22	University of Massachusetts Shofar Publishing Grant	1988-1989
56	23	University of Michigan Prospect Publishing Grant	1988-1989
56	24	University of Pennsylvania Jewish Quarterly Publishing Grant	1988
56	25	University of Wisconsin-Madison B'nai B'rith/Hillel Foundations Various Programming Grants	1988-1989
Program Year,  1989-1990.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	26	Beloit College Chevrah Pessakh Seder Programming Grant	1990
56	27	Brown University Brown Middle East Journal Publishing Grant	1989-1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	28	Columbia University Perspectives Publishing Grant	1989-1990
56	29	Columbia University Promote Peace Week and Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Programming Grant	1990
56	30	Harvard-Radcliffe Chai Week Programming Grant	1990
56	31	Harvard-Radcliffe Mosaic Publishing Grant	undated, 1990
56	32	Israel Task Force Intercollegiate Association The Israel Experience Programming Grant	1989-1990
56	33	Johns Hopkins Israel Festival Programming Grant	1990
56	34	Knox College (Illinois) Two People-One Future Middle East Conflict Programming Grant	1989-1990
56	35	Lilith Campus Outreach Program Grant	1989-1990
56	36	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chai Week Programming Grant	1989-1990
56	37	NETWORK Campus Caravan and NetSouth Conference Grant	1989-1990
56	38	Recipient List and Application Flyer	1989-1990
56	39	State University of New York-Stony Brook Chai Week Programming Grant	1990
56	40	Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ) Handbook Publication Grant	1990
56	41	University of Arizona Jewish Students Solidarity Day Programming Grant	1989
56	42	University of California-Berkeley Bayit Shabbat Programming Grant	1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
56	43	University of California-Berkeley Kol-Ha Student Publishing Grant	1989-1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
57	1	University of California-Berkeley Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Tsa'ad/Hutwa Arab/Jewish Theatre Group Performance Grant	1990
57	2	University of California-Santa Barbara Israel Awareness Committee Israel Fair Programming Grant	1990
57	3	University of Cincinnati Programming and The News Record Grant	1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
57	4	University of Florida Jewish Student News Publishing	1989-1990
57	5	University of Michigan Prospect Advertising Grant	1990
57	6	University of Minnesota A Shayna Maidel Theatre Production Grant	1989
57	7	University of Minnesota Israel Action Committee Yom Ha'atzmaut Programming Grant	1990
57	8	University of Pennsylvania Insight Outreach Chai Week Programming Grant	1990
57	9	University of Pennsylvania Yugntruf Yiddish Leyenkraz National Conference Travel Subsidies Grant	1989
57	10	University of Wisconsin Genesis Publishing Grant	[1989]
57	11	University of Wisconsin-Madison Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Erel Margalit Honorarium Grant	1989
57	12	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus Organization for Israel (COFI) Middle East Peace Process Seminar	1989-1990
57	13	Wesleyan Hamakkor Publishing Grant	[1990]
57	14	Yale University Chai Week Questions of Judaism Programming Grant	1989-1990
Program Year,  1990-1991.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
57	15	Baltimore Campuses Jewish Students Association Israel Week Programming Grant	1991
57	16	Beloit College Haggadah Replacement Grant	1990-1991
57	17	Brown University Mahberet Publishing Grant	1990-1991
57	18	Columbia University Perspectives Publishing Grant	1990
Box	Folder	Title	Date
57	19	Denied Proposals	1990-1991
57	20	Do the Write Thing National Symposium on Jewish Issues for Campus Media (General Assembly, 1991) Conference Fee Grant	1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
57	21	Georgia Israel Network of University Students (GIPAC) Building Jewish Identity Workshop Grant	1991
57	22	Hamagshimim Florida Zionist Students Conference Programming Grant	1991
57	23	Macalester College (MN) Hebrew House/Israel Action Committee Israel Day Programming Grant	1990-1991
57	24	McGill University Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Compromising for Peace: Dilemmas Surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Seminar Grant	1991
57	25	Monterey Institute of International Studies Middle Easter Exchange Club The Israel Experience Film	undated, 1991
57	26	Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Shuli Eshel Film and College Tour Grant	1991
57	27	Project Chai, Various Campuses Planning and Programming Grants	1990-1991
57	28	Recipients List	1990-1991
57	29	Rider College and Trenton State College Programming	1991
57	30	San Francisco State University Blacks and Jews Staged Reading Grant	1991
57	31	San Francisco State University Israeli Science and Technology Fair Programming Grant	1991
57	32	State University of New York-Buffalo Jewish Student Union 5th Annual Semi-Formal Funding Grant	1991
57	33	Syracuse University Blue and White Campaign to Support Israel Emergency Funding Grant	1991
57	34	University of British Columbia-Vancouver Israel Awareness Week Programming Grant	January 25, 1991
57	35	University of California-Berkeley Ha'Doresh Publishing	1990-1991
57	36	University of California-Berkeley Kol Ha Student Publishing Grant	1991
57	37	University of California-Santa Cruz Progressive Students Union Speakers Honorarium Grant	Jan. 29, 1991
57	38	University of California-Santa Cruz Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Conference Student Subsidies Grant	1991
57	39	University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne D'Varim Publishing Grant	1990-1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
58	1	University of Maryland-College Park Yom Ha'Shoah Vigil	1990-1991
58	2	University of Michigan Jewish Peace Fellowship Speaker Honorarium Grant	undated, 1990
58	3	University of Oregon Israel Week Programming Grant	1990
58	4	University of San Diego TAGAR Zionist Student Activist Movement Conference Programming Grant	1991
58	5	University of South Carolina Southeast Regional Conference Spring Retreat Programming Grant	1991
58	6	University of Texas Russian Olim Housing Studio Project Funding Grant	1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date
58	7	University of Wisconsin-Madison TAGAR Zionist Student Activist Movement Why Israel? and Israel Independence Day Grant	1991
58	8	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus Organization for Israel (COFI) Yom Ha'atzmaut Programming Grant	1991
58	9	Washington, DC Campuses Israel Task Force John Rothmann Honorarium Grant	1991
58	10	Washington University-St.Louis Hillel Sarah's Song Theatre Production Grant	1991
58	11	Wesleyan University Hamakkor Publishing Grant	1990-1991
Program Year,  1991-1992.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
58	12	Brandeis University Hirhurum Publishing Grant	1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
58	13	Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design Broadway Bound Production Grant	1991
58	14	California State University-Long Beach From Ashes to Rebirth Programming Grant	1991-1992
58	15	California State University-Northridge Round Robin Volleyball Tournament Grant	1991
58	16	Columbia University Lights in Action Start-up Funding	undated, 1992
58	17	Columbia University Perspectives Publishing Grant	1991-1992
58	18	Cornell University Am Echad Shabbaton and Kristallnacht Programming Grant	1991-1992
58	19	Denied Proposals	1991-1992
58	20	Denver-Area Campuses Freedom Week for Ethiopian Jewry Grant Proposal	undated, 1991-1992
58	21	Genesis and the Big Bang, Dr. Gerald Schroeder Lecture Tour Grants	1991-1992
58	22	Jewish Student Services of Metrowest (NJ) Yom Ha'Shoah Campus Tree Planting Program Grant	1992
58	23	McGill and Concordia Universities (CA) Kavana Publishing Grant	1991-1992
58	24	Ohio State University Hillel Winter Midwest Conference Programming Grant	1992
58	25	Ohio State University The Guardian-Ha-Shomer Publishing Grant	1992
58	26	Polytechnic Institute of New York Jewish Student Union Russian Jewish Programming Grant	1991-1992
58	27	Princeton University A New World Order? Elie Wiesel Lecture Student Reception Grant	1991-1992
58	28	Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (PA) Talmedi Chaverim Publishing Grant	1991-1992
58	29	Recipients List and Program Evaluations	1991-1992
58	30	San Francisco State University Progressive Jewish Student Union Panel Presentation Grant	1991-1992
58	31	Simon Fraser University Israel Week Honorarium Grant	1992
58	32	State University of New York-Albany The Spirit-Ha Ruach Publishing Grant	1991-1992
58	33	University of California-Davis Jewish Culture Week Programming Grant	1991-1992
58	34	University of California-Santa Cruz Women's Tour for Peace Funding Grant	1991-1992
58	35	University of Delaware Hebrew Bayit Programming Grant	1991
58	36	University of Florida Jewish Student Union Council Jewish Radio Hour Broadcasting Grant	1992
58	37	University of Illinois D'Varim Publishing Grant	1991-1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
59	1	University of Illinois Pro-Israel Education Council Israel in a Nutshell Seminar Grant	1991
59	2	University of Maryland Jewish Leadership Training Seminar Grant	undated, 1991-1992
59	3	University of Maryland Promoting Peace in the Middle East Region (PRIMER) Resource Guide Publishing Grant	1992
59	4	University of Michigan Celebration of Jewish Arts David Grossman and Debbie Friedman Concerts Funding Grant	1991-1992
59	5	University of Rochester Yom Ha'Shoah Programming Grant	1992
59	6	University of Texas Jewish Film Festival Funding Grant	1991-1992
59	7	University of Virginia Hillel Professor James E. Young Lecture and Seminar Funding Grant	1991-1992
59	8	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee TAGAR Chapter Israel Programs Fair and Masada Press Publishing Grant	1991-1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
59	9	William Patterson College (NJ) Jewish Students Association Community Model Seder Grant	1991-1992
59	10	Yale University Friends of Israel Deadly Current Film and Discussion Programming Grant	1991-1992
59	11	York University Israel Youth Concert Funding Grant	1992
Program Year,  1992-1993.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
59	12	Alliance for Judaism and Social Justice New York City Regional Conference Funding Grant	1993
59	13	American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Philadelphia Area Conference Transportation Grant	[1993]
59	14	Brandeis University Hirhurum Publishing Grant and the Giving-Doing-Caring (C-D-C) Network Funding Grant	1992-1993
59	15	Brooklyn Law School Weekly Study Discussing Group Programming Grant	1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
59	16	Brown University Kol Ishah Women's Group Women's Shabbaton Funding Grant	1993
59	17	Columbia University Avodnah Dance Company Breezes from Andalusia: Dance, Spain, and the Jews Production Grant	1992-1993
59	18	Denied Proposals	1992-1993
59	19	Duke University Israel Public Affairs Committee Solomon Perel Lecture and Europa, Europa Film Honorarium	1993
59	20	Elon College (NC) Holocaust Seminar and Letters from Leodakia Performance Grant	1992-1993
59	21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sukkah Project Building Grant	1992-1993
59	22	McGill University Undergraduate Journal of Jewish Studies Publishing Grant	1993, 1995
59	23	Memphis State University Israeli Independence Day Celebration and Fair Funding Grant	1993
59	24	Middlebury College and Williams College Weekend at Williams Conference on Jewish Identity Funding Grant	1992
59	25	Muehlenberg College (PA) Passover Seder Funding Grant	1993
59	26	Polytechnic Institute of New York Jewish Student Russian Jewry Programming Grant	1993
59	27	Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Visions for Peace: An Arab-Jewish Dialogue Campus Tour Funding Grant	1992-1993
59	28	Recipients List and Program Evaluations	1992-1993
59	29	Stanford University and Ryerson Polytechnic Deadly Currents Screening and Simcha Jacobovici Lecture Grant	1992-1993
59	30	State University of New York-Albany The Spirit-Ha'Ruach Publishing Grant	1993
59	31	State University of New York-Binghamton Jewish Cooking: Our Tradition Programming Grant	1992-1993
59	32	State University of New York-Stony Brook Shelanu Publishing Grant	1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
59	33	Texas A & M Fish Camp Orientation for Jewish Students Funding Grant	1992
59	34	University of Arizona Kol Koreh-The JournaI Publishing Start-Up Grant	1992-1993
59	35	University of California-Davis Jewish Cultural Week Programming Grant	1993
59	36	University of California-Long Beach Israel Awareness Week John Rothmann Lecture Honorarium Grant	1993
59	37	University of California-Los Angeles Israel Action Committee "Piece of Peace Israel/Egypt Peace Agreement Commemoration" Funding Grant	1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
33 (59)	11 (38)	RESTRICTED MATERIALS University of Illinois D'Varim Publishing Grant RESTRICTED MATERIALS	1992-1993
59	39	University of Massachusetts Zamir Radio Show Broadcasting Grant	1992-1993
59	40	University of Michigan Annual Conference on the Holocaust Solomon Perel Honorarium Grant	1993
59	41	University of Michigan Israel Michigan Affairs Committee (IMAC) Transportation Grant	1993
59	42	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill The Jewish Tarheel Publishing Grant	1992-1993
Box	Folder	Title	Date
60	1	University of Orgeon Yavneh Publishing Grant	1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
60	2	University of Texas-Austin Film Festival and Kosher Meals on Campus Grants	1982, 1992-1993
60	3	University of Virginia Jewish Life at Mr. Jefferson's University: An Historical Exhibit Grant	1993
60	4	University of Wisconsin-Madison Jonathon Kessler Middle East Lecture and Invisible Thread Photography Exhibit Funding Grant	1992-1993
60	5	Yale University Shabbaton Retreat Funding Grant	1992-1993
60	6	Yale University Urim v'Tumim Publishing Grant	1992-1993
Program Year,  1993-1994.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
60	7	Baltimore Inter-Campus Yom Ha'atzmaut Extravaganza Programming Grant	1994
60	8	Boston University Israeli Independence Day Celebration Funding Grant	1993-1994
60	9	Bowdoin College If Not Now, When?: Jewish Ethics in the 21st Century Second Annual Conference of Jewish Students Funding Grant	1993-1994
60	10	Brooklyn College A.B. Yeshoshua's Possessions Hebrew-Language Theatre Production Funding Grant	1994
60	11	Bryn Mawr/Haverford Holocaust Memorial Week Programming Grant	1994
60	12	California State-Long Beach Lag B'omer Film Festival and Concert Programming Grant	1994
60	13	Denied Proposals	1993-1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
60	14	Emory University Israel Activities Week Programming	1993-1994
60	15	Georgia Tech University/Atlanta Young Jewish Adult Agency (YAD) Holocaust Remembrance Week Programming	1994
60	16	Hillel Council of Greater Boston A New Generation of Jewish Women: Weaving Our Tapestry Conference Programming Grant	1994
60	17	Inter-Campus Council, Baltimore Area, Chocolate Seder Funding Grant	1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
60	18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) Shabbaton Funding Grant	1993-1994
60	20	McGill University Undergraduate Jewish Studies Journal Publishing Grant	1994
60	21	Northwestern University Yom HaShoah Name Reading Grant	1994
60	22	Recipients List	1993-1994
60	23	Southern Illinois University Aviva Kemperer The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg Lecture and Film Clip Viewing Program Grant	1994
60	24	Stanford University Shared Creativity: Visions of Community Inter-City Outreach Programming Grant	1994
60	25	State University of New York-Albany Rabbi Avi Weiss Holocaust Commemoration Lecture Program Grant	undated, 1994
60	26	State University of New York-Binghamton Middle East Cafes Inter-Community Dialogue Programming Grant	undated, 1994
60	27	University of California-Davis Koleinu Publishing Grant	1993-1994
60	28	University of California-Santa Barbara Holocaust Remembrance Week Funding Grant	1994
60	29	University of Miami TAGAR Mid-Year Zionist Conference Funding Grant	1993-1994
60	30	University of Michigan Holocaust Remembrance, Dr. Leon Bass Lecture Program	1994
60	31	University of Michigan Israel Michigan Public Affairs Committee (IMPAC) AIPAC Conference Attendance Grant	1994
60	32	University of Michigan Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) Yossi Melman Meet the Press Lecture Grant	1994
60	33	University of Minnesota U.S. Holocaust Museum Travel Funding Grant	1994
60	34	University of Oregon Yavneh Publishing Grant	1994
60	35	University of Texas-Austin Jewish Film Festival Programming Grant	1994
60	36	University of Toronto Images Publishing Grant	1994
60	37	University of Western Ontario Solomon Perel/Europa, Europa Lecture and Screening Grant	1994
60	38	University of Wisconsin Israel Independence Weekend Programming Grant	1994
60	39	Vassar College Ba'asham-Noisemaker Publishing Grant	1994
60	40	Washington University (St. Louis) Elie Wiesel's Trial of God Production Grant	1994
60	41	Wesleyan Havurah Prayerbook Publication Grant	1994
60	42	Wheaton College Making Our Own Space: A Women's Shabbaton Programming Grant	1993-1994
60	43	Yale University Faith and Art: A Festival of Religious Expression Programming Grant	1994
60	44	Yale University Magevet Spring Concert Funding Grant	1994
60	45	Yale University Model Israel Knesset Funding Grant	1994
Program Year,  1994-1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
61	1	Atlanta Jewish Young Adult Agency (YAD) Chaim Potok Lecture, Who Am I? Shabbaton and Claudia Stevens Performance Grants	1994-1995
61	2	Binghamton University A Jewish Woman's Dialogue: Commonalities and Differences Forum Funding Grant	1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
61	3	Bradley University Holocaust Memorial Day with Dr. Leon Bass Lecture Funding Grant and Poster	1994
61	4	Columbia University First Annual Yiddishkeit Festival A Shtetl Wedding Performance Grant	1994-1995
61	5	Columbia University Perspectives Tikkun Olam Issue Publishing Grant	undated, 1995
61	6	Columbia University Raphael Society Jewish Medical Ethics Forum Funding Grant	1995
61	7	Cornell University Passover Freedom Seder Intercultural Programming Grant